Paleontology Quotes

18 quotes by 14 authors

Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings… — Ernst Mayr
In vertebrate paleontology, increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity. — Alfred Romer
Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery,… — David Pilbeam
The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which is… — Louis T. Moore
Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology. — Stephen Jay Gould
The facts of paleontology seem to support creation and the flood rather than evolution. For instance, all the major groups of invertebrates appear "suddenly" in… — Enoch
We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as… — Michael Shermer
Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study. — David Pilbeam
A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian… — David M. Raup
I am not, personally, a believer or a religious man in any sense of institutional commitment or practice. But I have a great respect for… — Stephen Jay Gould
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data… — Stephen Jay Gould
We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further… — Errol White
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
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors. — John Updike
Darwin recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in… — George Gaylord Simpson
The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of… — Robert T. Bakker
Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories… — George G Simpson
What the hell's a Rachem? Is that some paleontology term that I wouldn't know about because I'm just a waitress? — Rachel Green

Who Wrote These Paleontology Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 18 Paleontology Quotes as follows: