Animals
- Sam (army dog) (died 2000), former army dog that was awarded the Dickin Medal
- Sam (koala) (died 2009), koala rescued after the 2009 bush fires in Victoria, Australia
- Sam (orangutan), an orangutan that starred in the movie Dunston Checks In
- Sam (ugly dog) (1990–2005), dog voted the world's ugliest dog in 2003, 2004, and 2005
- Unsinkable Sam, a cat who lived through World War Two on three different military ships, and survived each of their sinkings
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“The vast results obtained by Science are won by no mystical faculties, by no mental processes other than those which are practiced by every one of us, in the humblest and meanest affairs of life. A detective policeman discovers a burglar from the marks made by his shoe, by a mental process identical with that by which Cuvier restored the extinct animals of Montmartre from fragments of their bones.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness—by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)