The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
“The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ... — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Thanks to their hardness, teeth are often the best-preserved animal part we find in the fossil record for many time periods.” — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
“Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some… — Michael Martone Copy Share Image
Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record. — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
“...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.” — E.J.H. Corner Copy Share Image
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
The known fossil record fails to document a single example of phyletic evolution i.e., a species becoming a new species accomplishing a… — Steven M. Stanley Copy Share Image
There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“According to the fossil record, Neanderthals appeared between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago and existed until about 30,000 years ago. Throughout their… — Svante Pääbo Copy Share Image
What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information,… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“In short, the fossil record is perfectly compatible with the supposition that at some time between eight and six million years ago,… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
“The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, intimidating, taking on the… — Gareth J. Nelson Copy Share Image
Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“The fossil record is always there, whether or not you discover it. The brittle ghosts of the past. Memory is not like… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms. — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species,… — Gareth J. Nelson Copy Share Image
As you know, the fossil record includes not only the ancestors of crocodiles and whales, but also the ancestors of human beings.… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Each plant and animal is exquisitely made; should not a supremely competent Designer have been able to make the intended variety from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
![“There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but a tiny fraction of the diversity that [according to the theory] actually lived in the past. There are well over a million species living today and . . [it is]…” quote by David M. Raup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37b/david-m-raup-33751_animal_there-are-about-250-000-different-specie_264230.jpg)
