Fossils Quotes

242 quotes by 162 authors

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
The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils. — George Mercer Dawson
Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy. — Hermann Scheer
This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels. — Jim Wallis
We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells… — Albert Wynn
Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form… — Thomas Homer-Dixon
Obviously, nu-que-lar power is, uh, a renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like fossil fuels, the… — George W. Bush
Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone shown such grace and skill in the… — Stephen Jay Gould
You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet — Bill McKibben
We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax… — Nicolas Sarkozy
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s) — Bill McKibben

Who Wrote These Fossils Quotes

162 authors contributed a total of 242 Fossils Quotes, led by these top contributors: