Fossils Quotes

242 quotes by 162 authors

Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the… — Christopher Isherwood
It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt. — Lauren Oliver
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half… — Michael Pollan
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and… — Henry David Thoreau
A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards of living. It… — Ross Garnaut
Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest.… — Al Purdy
If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a… — Janine Benyus
Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ... — Stephen Jay Gould
Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do… — Stephen Jay Gould
If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to… — Stephen Jay Gould
The modern theory of evolution does not require gradual change. It in fact, the operation of Darwinian processes should yield exactly what we see in… — Stephen Jay Gould
What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a… — Rajneesh
All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in… — Richard Dawkins
Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to. — Robert T. Bakker
Venice is truly magical. The Devon-Dorset coast in England is so beautiful, and its sandstone cliffs are full of fossils, which can make for some… — Jo Beverley
We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be… — Richard Leakey
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father's name; Piled high, packed large, where, creeping in… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. — Superman
I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils. — Richard Leakey

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