Geological Time Quotes

11 quotes by 8 authors

You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an… — Wallace Stegner
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches… — Edward Forbes
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of… — Stephen Jay Gould
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is… — Richard Dawkins
Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions… — Nhat Hanh
They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it… — Arundhati Roy
Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a… — Michael Crichton
Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the… — Richard Dawkins
Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a… — Stephen Jay Gould
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in… — Edward Forbes
Geological time is not money. — Mark Twain

Who Wrote These Geological Time Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 11 Geological Time Quotes as follows: