Dentist Quote by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“Thanks to their hardness, teeth are often the best-preserved animal part we find in the fossil record for many time periods.”

— Neil Shubin

“..Like the cavities of missing teeth in some giant denture, into which new ones were to be fitted.”

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Teeth are alive, and given the proper environment, they can regenerate; this is why internal factors that nourish the teeth are so important.”

— Nadine Artemis

“Caelum was right: Why should they have to give so much, and never take anything in return? If everyone believed they were monsters, shouldn't…

— Lauren Oliver

Survival of the fittest led to "nature red in tooth and claw" and this is not sufficiently wishy-washy for modern scientists.

— Anthony Standen

“Yet the little tooth contains so much of our connection to the rest of life that it is virtually impossible to understand our bodies…

— Neil Shubin

“Of course skills count, but they do count less in highly random environments than they do in dentistry.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature…

— Lewis Thomas

“Be your own dentist!”

— Rube Goldberg

There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.

— Faith Sullivan