Fossils Quotes

242 quotes by 167 authors

Britain has squandered its windfall of natural resources from North Sea oil and gas. Instead of prudently investing the 'unearned income' from nature, to build… — Andrew Simms
We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels — Richard Branson
I ask citizens and governments everywhere to do their part by conserving energy and reducing the use of fossil fuels for the good of the… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans — Chris Stringer
All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like. — Phillip E. Johnson
In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes
A Chinese paleontologist lectures around the world saying that recent fossil finds in his country are inconsistent with the Darwinian theory of evolution. His reason:… — Phillip E. Johnson
If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as… — Adam Gollner
We really kind of pioneered a technology here at Fossil Rim where we use ultrasound on both our white rhinos and black rhinos and we… — Bruce Williams
In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen,… — Jonathan Clements
You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow.… — Henry David Thoreau
Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process… — Stephen Jay Gould
Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in rock in hollows… — Albertus Magnus
Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes. — Torbern Bergman
If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs, that such Persons… — Robert Hooke
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the… — Georges Cuvier
It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted… — Georges Cuvier
No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series… — William Buckland
Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. — Jean-Henri Fabre

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