Fossils Quotes

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One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to find… — 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 were really mad… — Arthur C. Clarke
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 existences,… — Roderick Murchison
Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that we will ever… — Jimmy Carter
It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to… — Georges Cuvier
Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces if… — Jacques Monod
We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal… — Oliver Goldsmith
The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils… — Richard Dawkins
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings… — 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. Such questions include,… — Lynn Margulis
The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates… — 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 life would grow… — 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 preservation and recognition,… — Earnest Hooton
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had… — Richard Dawkins
I shall discuss the broad patterns of hominoid evolution, an exercise made enjoyable by the need to integrate diverse kinds of information, and use that… — David Pilbeam
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 preserve… — Stephen Jay Gould
There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that this… — David Berlinski
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how much we're contributing… — Barack Obama
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. — David Goodstein

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