One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency. — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it… — Bill McKibben 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
No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel. — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live… — David Goodstein Copy Share Image
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
“Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
My guess is that liberating the fossil fuel industry to frack anywhere they want will drive down the rate at which we're… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and… — Lee R. Raymond Copy Share Image
All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the… — Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely… — James Lovelock 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
As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly… — John M. McHugh Copy Share Image
I know that nuclear is better than fossil fuels when it comes to carbon dioxide, but nuclear energy is by no means… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of… — Joseph J. Romm Copy Share Image
We only gain collectively by acting now. We gain by one day not having to pay a thing for fuel. We gain… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
