Earth Quote by George Gaylord Simpson

“Most living things never get fossilized, and most fossils end up in places where they are impossible to discover. It is impressive that paleontologists…

— Bill Nye

Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

— George Gaylord Simpson

Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was…

— Richard Dawkins

In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

— Jack Horner

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

— Luis Walter Alvarez

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…

— David M. Raup

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

— Richard Leakey

There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is…

— David M. Raup

The number of known human fossils only increases slowly. But the manner of regarding and assessing them is capable of progressing rapidly, as indeed…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have…

— Richard Dawkins

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is…

— Richard Leakey