The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth. — Giovanni Battista Brocchi Copy Share Image
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross. — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind… — Alice Lowe Copy Share Image
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get… — Jack McDevitt 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
To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint… — Jeanette Winterson 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
The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
“I saw no reason I could not live out my days in Upper Biddleton as a ruined woman. After all, that sort… — Amanda Quick Copy Share Image
But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
It is very possible to have lives that are just as prosperous, and nicer, that use 5 percent of the fossil fuels… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Both the United States and the world economy have already reached - and surpassed - their sustainable physical limits. Ground water is… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
If you have a carbon cap and trade system, there'd be an agreed-to limit the amount of carbon we emit. That changes… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of… — Bill McKibben 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
“Every day, hundreds of observations and experiments pour into the hopper of the scientific literature. Many of them don't have much to… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
We need policy change, and the most important thing people can do is to contribute and participate in the political process. We… — Josh Fox 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
“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
What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
There's a lot of wishful thinking that somehow we'll replace fossil fuels with alternative energy sources, but they remain far from reality.… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The truth is, natural organisms have managed to do everything we want to do without guzzling fossil fuels, polluting the planet or… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
We all know that we have to get off of fossil fuels. And we know that the world is going in that… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Coal is responsible for as much atmospheric carbon dioxide as other fossil fuels combined and it still has far greater reserves. We… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer. — Shuji Nakamura Copy Share Image
![“Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning of human history to the middle of the eighteenth century had perhaps doubled. Not much had changed, and then we found coal and gas and oil and…” quote by Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b54/bill-mckibben-1057_average_fossil-fuel-is-very-seductive-stuff-john_2619536.jpg)
