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Fossil Quotes by David Goodstein
- Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.
- No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.
More Fossil Quotes
- One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they… — Arthur C. Clarke
- Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that… — Jimmy Carter
- It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we… — Georges Cuvier
- Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears… — Jacques Monod
- We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in… — Oliver Goldsmith
- Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and… — Ernst Mayr
- Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket.… — Lynn Margulis
- The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to… — Stephen Jay Gould
- On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of… — Simon Conway Morris
- In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve… — Earnest Hooton
- Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could… — Richard Dawkins