Fossil Quotes

226 quotes by 155 authors

Darwin's prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical… — Niles Eldredge
On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as 'dino-fuzz', have nothing to do with bird feathers... I,… — Alan Feduccia
We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than… — David M. Raup
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 Darwinian… — David M. Raup
There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but… — David M. Raup
If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that it is impossible… — Bertrand Piccard
Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I… — Norman Rockwell
It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it… — Bill Bryson
...A one-pound box of prewashed lettuce contains 80 calories of food energy. According to Cornell ecologist David Pimentel, growing, chilling, washing, packaging, and transporting that… — Michael Pollan
What can be more soul shaking than peering through a 100-inch telescope at a distant galaxy, holding a 100-million-year-old fossil or a 500,000-year-old stone tool… — Michael Shermer
One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. — Lincoln Diaz-Balart
When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil. — Jack Handey
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of… — Georges Cuvier
Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundanceâ€”and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive with fossil fuels.… — Christopher Flavin
The 1,230 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generating capacity in place at the end of 2009 now constitutes just over 25 percent of total generating… — Christopher Flavin
If [a student's] collegeâ€™s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they wonâ€™t have much of a… — Bill McKibben
Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable. — Amory Lovins
At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources… — Daniel Suarez
From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in the… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy. — Hermann Scheer

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