Evolution Quote by Elizabeth Kolbert

Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

People sometimes say we need to be really almost on a wartime footing if you want to change. Our whole economy is based on…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

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

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of…

— Carl Sagan

“Rocks are not static and inert. They are constantly changing, shifting, and rearranging their form and location. They can be melted, deposited, eroded and…

— Robert R. Coenraads

From the almost total absence of fossil evidence relative to the origin of the phyla, it follows that any explanation of the mechanism in…

— Pierre-Paul Grasse

One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ...

— Stephen Jay Gould

If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray…

— Carl Zimmer

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure…

— Michael Pollan

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.

— David Goodstein