Quote by Donald Revell

“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

“Fossils are one of the major lines of evidence that we use to understand ourselves.”

— Neil Shubin

“The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.”

— Carl Sagan

“if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

“...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.”

— E.J.H. Corner

“But again, it’s as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears and past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.”

— Lauren Oliver

“Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil."   "A which?"   "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They…

— Mark Twain

“Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“I confess that the idea of taking off one's boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had…

— Richard Fortey

The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.

— Jack Horner

“amphibian fossils are so rare.”

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families,…

— Gareth J. Nelson