Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity. — Alfred Romer Copy Share Image
What the hell's a Rachem? Is that some paleontology term that I wouldn't know about because I'm just a waitress? — Rachel Green Copy Share Image
“Nature has a habit of placing some of her most attractive treasures in places where it is difficult to locate and obtain… — Charles Doolittle Walcott Copy Share Image
“Geneticists are a group of mathematicians who have taken over the Neanderthal Paleontology Guild. They call the shots now.” — Bill Gaede 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
Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“From an illustration in her "Animals of a Bygone Era": a Leptictidium, an extinct rabbit-like animal who left no descendants, says: "Too… — Maja Säfström 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
The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for… — David Pilbeam Copy Share Image
“I simply would not accede to being forced into this, and would frequently be kept out of classes because of irreverent comments… — Richard E. Leakey Copy Share Image
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Fossils do not require long ages to form. In fact, they must form quickly, otherwise the organism’s softer tissues and even bones… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of… — Louis T. Moore Copy Share Image
The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest… — Wangechi Mutu 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
“Turning hard material (e.g., bones) into fossils is easy in a lab setting, but in 1993, scientists were even able to make… — Ken Ham 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
It is well known, that on the Ohio, and in many parts of America further north, tusks, grinders, and skeletons of unparalleled… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying, but T. rex was huge: adults were about forty-two feet (thirteen meters) long and weighed in the ballpark… — Steve Brusatte Copy Share Image
“In other instances, some of these animals may have made it to a particular area and become extinct for various reasons —… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
“These are feathers. Not the quill-pen feathers that make up the wings of today’s birds but simpler ones that look more like… — Steve Brusatte Copy Share Image
“In most people's minds, fossils and Evolution go hand in hand. In reality, fossils are a great embarrassment to Evolutionary theory and… — Gary Parker Copy Share Image
“During the final 20 million years of the Cretaceous, tyrannosaurs flourished, ruling the river valleys, lakeshores, floodplains, forests, and deserts of North… — Steve Brusatte Copy Share Image
“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually… — John Steinbeck 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 impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“After a handful of geeks sequenced the Neanderthal genome and found a 2% match, they opened the flood gates to hundreds of… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“there is no denying that by the dawn of the Campanian subinterval of the latest Cretaceous, beginning about 84 million years ago,… — Steve Brusatte Copy Share Image
Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too… — David Pilbeam Copy Share Image
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