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Example Quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
- All interesting issues in natural history are questions of relative frequency, not single examples. Everything happens once amidst the richness of nature. But when an…
- Some beliefs may be subject to such instant, brutal and unambiguous rejection. For example: no left-coiling periwinkle has ever been found among millions of snails…
- Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing…
- Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence of all transitional…
- Forelimbs of people, porpoises, bats and horses provide the classic example of homology in most textbooks. They look different, and do different things, but are…
More Example Quotes
- Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- All blessings come to us through our Lord. He will teach us, for in beholding His life we find that He is… — Teresa of Avila
- Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. — Robert Baden-Powell
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two… — Ambrose Bierce