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Fossils Quotes by Simon Conway Morris
- 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…
- The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference…
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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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Jimmy Carter
- It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we… — Georges Cuvier
- Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears… — Jacques Monod
- We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in… — 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… — Richard Dawkins