Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And… — Alan Feduccia Copy Share Image
What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of… — Barack Obama 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
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
It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student…have now been debunked. — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
As the country continues to dissect the recent natural disaster, we might want to start considering what about the disaster wasn't actually… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone shown such grace and… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Remember that the problem is bigger than the car you drive or the types of lightbulbs in city hall. We need a… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We're clearly coming to the end of the fossil fuel era. We have the technology to shift to renewable energy, we have… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Words change their meanings, just as organisms evolve. We would impose an enormous burden on our economy if we insisted on payment… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads,… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
In the past few months I've become religious, I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that… — Stewart Lee Copy Share Image
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
CO2 is a minor player in the total system, and human CO2 emissions are insignificant compared to total natural greenhouse gas emissions.… — Jonathan Duhamel 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
The gradual depletion of the ozone layer and the related "greenhouse effect" has now reached crisis proportions as a consequence of industrial… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. — Dennis Weaver Copy Share Image
I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
The Creation Museum uses fossils to present evidence that there was a global catastrophe, Noah's Flood, that killed and preserved the remains… — Ken Ham 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
If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here… — Hermann Scheer 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
Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy. — Hermann Scheer 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
Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s) — Bill McKibben 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
The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
I feel like I have become a living fossil in the fashion world. Without even noticing it, in my own collection I… — Yohji Yamamoto Copy Share Image
