Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too…

One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency.

— Avi Lewis

I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to…

— Bill McKibben

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ...

— Stephen Jay Gould

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.

— David Goodstein

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure…

— Michael Pollan

If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray…

— Carl Zimmer

Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil…

— David Goodstein

From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in…

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of…

— Honoré de Balzac

You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Rocks are not static and inert. They are constantly changing, shifting, and rearranging their form and location. They can be melted, deposited, eroded and…

— Robert R. Coenraads

My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're converting to…

— Bill McKibben

I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy…

— Lee R. Raymond

All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential…

— Gottfried Leibniz