--- title: "9 Trilobites Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 9 Trilobites quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Trilobites sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb8/lee-vickers-2238_evolution_paleontologists-found-that-in-the-past-t_2985349.jpg" --- > [“Paleontologists found that in the past, Trilobites”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-vickers/paleontologists-found-that-in-the-past-trilobites/) [Lee Vickers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-vickers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb8/lee-vickers-2238_evolution_paleontologists-found-that-in-the-past-t_2985349.jpg) > [You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-fortey/you-must-not-lie-about-trilobites-nor-yet-about-time/) [Richard Fortey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-fortey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bce/richard-fortey-24595_lying_you-must-not-lie-about-trilobites-nor-ye_2944486.png) > [“But, for now, I retreated back down the little hidden staircase into the familiar world of the basement of the Natural History…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-fortey/but-for-now-i-retreated-back-down-the-little-hidden-staircase-into/) [Richard Fortey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-fortey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/028/richard-fortey-24595_natural-history_but-for-now-i-retreated-back-down-the-li_343052.png) > [“I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/niles-eldredge/i-m-doing-now-with-cornets-exactly-what-i-used-to-do-with-trilobites/) [Niles Eldredge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/niles-eldredge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b0/niles-eldredge-44808_biology_i-m-doing-now-with-cornets-exactly-what_2960603.png) > [“In the Spirit Building there are thousands upon thousands of jars containing fish or snake, octopus or lobster, pickled to the life.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-fortey/in-the-spirit-building-there-are-thousands-upon-thousands-of-jars/) [Richard Fortey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-fortey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32e/richard-fortey-24595_pickle_in-the-spirit-building-there-are-thousan_1955528.png) > [“Trilobites survived for a total of three hundred million years, almost the whole duration of the Palaeozoic era: who are we johnny-come-latelies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-fortey/trilobites-survived-for-a-total-of-three-hundred-million-years-almost/) [Richard Fortey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-fortey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c95/richard-fortey-24595_evolution_trilobites-survived-for-a-total-of-three_1308780.png) > [One winter, I went to Erfoud to research trilobites and got to know the quarries, the dealers, and the remote mining villages.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lawrence-osborne/one-winter-i-went-to-erfoud-to-research-trilobites-and-got-to-know/) [Lawrence Osborne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lawrence-osborne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be7/lawrence-osborne-11920_easy_one-winter-i-went-to-erfoud-to-research_408637.jpg) > [“Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-fortey/without-death-there-is-little-innovation-extinction-death-of-a/) [Richard Fortey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-fortey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/777/richard-fortey-24595_change_without-death-there-is-little-innovation_58540.png) > [“I lean back, try to forget these fields and flanking hills. A long time before me or these tools, the Teays flowed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/breece-d-j-pancake/i-lean-back-try-to-forget-these-fields-and-flanking-hills-a-long-time/) [Breece D'J Pancake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/breece-d-j-pancake/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/101/breece-d-j-pancake-44781_cold-water_i-lean-back-try-to-forget-these-fields-a_1779279.png) ## Top authors on Trilobites - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-richard-fortey-78565.jpg) Richard Fortey 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trilobites/richard-fortey/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/trilobites/#itemlist", "name": "Trilobites Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Paleontologists found that in the past, Trilobites”", "creator": { "@type": 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Men have so far survived half a per cent as long. 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