Time Quote by Carl Sagan

The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not with a…

— Carl Sagan

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Tracy Chevalier

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

— Donald Revell

“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families,…

— Gareth J. Nelson

“The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, intimidating, taking on the aura of…

— Gareth J. Nelson

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

— Neil Shubin

“if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

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

— E.J.H. Corner

The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.

— Jack Horner

“Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries”

— Benjamin Franklin

“We are in a comfortable Dark Ages of the inventive mind; institutions change but little, and that by gradual evolution rather than revolution; scientific…

— Dan Simmons