Fossils Quotes
242 quotes by 162 authors
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To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself -…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put…
— Stephen Hawking
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The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a…
— Carl Sagan
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Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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He's just rather more lively than most fossils.
— Tamora Pierce
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The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
— Sylvia Plath
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Language is fossil Poetry.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying…
— Richard Dawkins
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Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse…
— Lewis Black
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I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as…
— Lewis Thomas
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The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching…
— George Monbiot
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We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life…
— Wendell Berry
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Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.
— Delphine de Vigan
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Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy…
— Carl Sagan
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Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.
— Richard Dawkins
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Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and…
— Jeanette Winterson
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We are fossils in the making.
— Wallace Stegner
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But the world moves on, even when you don’t want it to, even when change feels like the end of everything. It never stops. That’s…
— Ann Aguirre
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Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now…
— Charles Kingsley
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