Horace in Jurassic Park

In the movie Jurassic Park, the mathematician Ian Malcom, played by Jeff Goldblum, memorably said: ‘Life finds a way’.

It is one of the most famous lines in cinema. But it is, quite simply, a paraphrase of another famous line (for a different age) - that of the Roman poet Horace, who, in his Epistles, wrote:

‘You may toss nature out with a pitchfork, ne…