Anticipate 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, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.”

— Carl Sagan

“Each plant and animal is exquisitely made; should not a supremely competent Designer have been able to make the intended variety from the start?…

— Carl Sagan

“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

“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

“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

A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more…

— David M. Raup

What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several…

— Louise Leakey

Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.

— D. V. Ager

Placed as the fossils are in their several tiers of burial-places the one over the other; we have in them true witnesses of successive…

— Roderick Murchison

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

— Jack Horner