Politics Quote by Brian Switek

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

— Neil Shubin

“Historians and paleontologists have a great rivalry," said Tetsuo. "Most contact missions arrive too late, after history has ended. The people we wanted to…

— Leonard Richardson

Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.

— David Pilbeam

“Most living things never get fossilized, and most fossils end up in places where they are impossible to discover. It is impressive that paleontologists…

— Bill Nye

We are fossils in the making.

— Wallace Stegner

The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are…

— David M. Raup

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is…

— Richard Leakey

When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate…

— Richard Leakey

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the…

— Anonymous

Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to…

— Stephen Jay Gould

We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less…

— Apsley Cherry-Garrard

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

— Luis Walter Alvarez