Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 26 (p. 512)
“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”
“Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.”
As quoted in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (2006) by Larry Chang, p. 469
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
Interview with Susan Goodman, Modern Maturity (March/April 1998) http://www.paulrossen.com/paulinekael/modernmaturity.html.
Interviews
Source: The Causes of Evolution (1932), Ch. IV Natural Selection, pp. 104-106.
Context: Where natural selection slackens, new forms may arise which would not survive under more rigid competition, and many ultimately hardy combinations will thus have a chance of arising.... Thus the distinction between the principal mammalian orders seems to have arisen during an orgy of variation in the early Eocene which followed the doom of the great reptiles... Since that date mammalian evolution has been a slower affair, largely a progressive improvement of the types originally laid down in the Eocene.
Another possible mode of making rapid evolutionary jumps is by hybridisation.... hybridisation (where the hybrids are fertile) usually causes an epidemic of variation in the second generation which may include new and valuable types which could not have arisen within a species by slower evolution.
“They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive!”
Could You Be Loved
Uprising (1979)
“We’ll never survive!”
“Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”
Source: The Princess Bride
