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“The fossil record quietly accounts for me...”

— Donald Revell

“I confess that the idea of taking off one's boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had…

— Richard Fortey

“Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“Fossils are one of the major lines of evidence that we use to understand ourselves.”

— Neil Shubin

“What had been so funny? But you can never remember what you were laughing about, and even if you could, it seems doubtful that…

— Rufi Thorpe

“Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil."   "A which?"   "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They…

— Mark Twain

“What I really felt was this: chopped down like a tree, a new feeling, and I was realizing that all new feelings from here…

— Lorrie Moore

“I laugh as an unfamiliar feeling envelops me. I think it might be happiness.”

— Paula Stokes

“...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.”

— E.J.H. Corner

“And then I remember this morning and I wonder if it really happened or if I dreamed it. It was nice. And weird. And…

— Jennifer Donnelly

“amphibian fossils are so rare.”

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“And suddenly I felt panic. I'd made a mistake, like when I'd played chess with Ray and knew a second too late I'd made…

— Janet Fitch