Biology Quote by David Pilbeam

Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too…

— David Pilbeam

It is well known, that on the Ohio, and in many parts of America further north, tusks, grinders, and skeletons of unparalleled magnitude are…

— Thomas Jefferson

Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, intimidating, taking on the aura of…

— Gareth J. Nelson

“I simply would not accede to being forced into this, and would frequently be kept out of classes because of irreverent comments and mocking…

— Richard E. Leakey

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…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“From an illustration in her "Animals of a Bygone Era": a Leptictidium, an extinct rabbit-like animal who left no descendants, says: "Too bad, because…

— Maja Säfström

The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of faith which…

— Louis T. Moore

Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you…

— Marlene van Niekerk

We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology…

— Kenneth R. Miller

“there is no denying that by the dawn of the Campanian subinterval of the latest Cretaceous, beginning about 84 million years ago, tyrannosaurs had…

— Steve Brusatte

“In other instances, some of these animals may have made it to a particular area and become extinct for various reasons — ultimately due…

— Ken Ham

We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields…

— Michael Shermer

“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000 years ago.”

— Bill Gaede

Biochemists and biologists who adhere blindly to the Darwinism theory search for results that will be in agreement with their theories and consequently orient…

— Pierre-Paul Grasse