"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being the better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness."

"Felix quicumque dolore alterius disces posse cavere tuo."

"Inspicere tamquam in speculum in vitas omnium Jubeo atque ex aliis sumere exemplum sibi."

"Sheep follow sheep."

"He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live."

"Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time."

"L'exemple est un dangereux leurre; Où la guêpe a passé, le moucheron demeure."

"Unde tibi frontem libertatemque parentis, Cum facias pejora senex?"

"I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter."

"Avidos vicinum funus ut ægros Exanimat, mortisque metu sibi parcere cogit; Sic teneros animos aliena opprobria sæpe Absterrent vitiis."

"Content to follow when we lead the way."

"Since truth and constancy are vain, Since neither love, nor sense of pain, Nor force of reason, can persuade, Then let example be obey'd."

"Componitur orbis Regis ad exemplum; nec sic inflectere sensus Humanos edicta valent, quam vita regentis."

"Quod exemplo fit, id etiam jure fieri putant."

"This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,— That firste he wroughte and afterward he taughte."

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

"Sequiturque patrem non passibus æquis."

"I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men … in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor."

"He was indeed the glass Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves."

"If thou desire to see thy child virtuous, let him not see his father's vices: thou canst not rebuke that in them, that they behold practised in thee; till reason be ripe, examples direct more than precepts: such as thy behaviour is before thy children's faces, such commonly is theirs behind their parents' backs."

"The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to over-reaching and fraud; and "teaching" has not a tithe of the efficiency of "training". Christ never wrote a "Tract" in his life, but he went about doing good."

"Indeed a wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts, to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid."

"Example is always more efficacious than precept."

"Men trust their ears less than their eyes."

"Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way."

"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after."

"Illustrious predecessors."

"None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing."

"Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?"

"Illustrious Predecessor."

"What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves."

"We must give them hope, pride, a desire to fight. Yes, we need to make examples. But examples to follow. What we need.. are heroes."

"Example has more followers than reason."

"The theory of evolution by Darwin does not explain how this transition occurred, from inert matter to living matter and then to the only form of living matter endowed with reason, which is man. It is not scientifically rigorous. A rigorous scientific theory meets the requirements of scientific rigor of Galileo, who was the father of science: mathematical description and experimental reproducibility. Requirements that evolutionary theory does not meet, precisely because it cannot describe nor even less reproduce the transition from nonliving matter to living species, plant and animal. It cannot answer the question of why among millions of species, only one, the human being, is endowed with reason. The science of life has not figured out how life arises; it is not an exact science."

"Of course, like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised."

"Taylor: A planet where apes evolved from men?"

"Samuel Butler's famous aphorism that the chicken is only an egg's way of making another egg has been modernized: the organism is only DNA's way of making more DNA."

"Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the center, and the Almighty sitting above the firmament the agent in moving the heavenly bodies about it with his own hands, so now a race of biological thinkers had destroyed the old idea of a Creator minutely contriving and fashioning all animals to suit the needs and purposes of man."

"Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and made the fruitful suggestion of "a perfecting principle" in Nature. With the coming in of Christian theology this tendency toward a yet truer theory of evolution was mainly stopped, but the old crude view remained..."

"Organic evolution has its physical analogue in the universal law that the world tends, in all its parts and particles, to pass from certain less probable to certain more probable configurations or states. This is the second law of thermodynamics. It has been called the law of evolution of the world; and we call it, after Clausius, the Principle of Entropy, which is a literal translation of Evolution in Greek."

"They were only built by chance; maybe a tweak or two to give them green eyes, or better hearing, or to keep them safe from cancer. The engines of their creation had no foresight and no future. All that matters to evolution is what works in the moment."

"Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again."

"Darwinian man though well behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved!"

"survival of the fittest"

"Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent, homogeneity to a definite, coherent, heterogeneity, through continuous differentiations and integrations."

"This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.""

"Before I gifted Picard my golem my intention was to live beyond my years. To become my own legacy. Now I see, in my final days, that wasn't just poor humanity, it was poor science. Because evolution is not an act of preservation. It's addition."

"When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palæozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime."

"This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step."