Earth Quote by George Gaylord Simpson

“The general rule is that the gentler the flow of the stream or river, the better preserved the fossils.”

— Neil Shubin

There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme…

— Hendrik Poinar

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

— George Gaylord Simpson

“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

“Paleontologists found that in the past, Trilobites”

— Lee Vickers

“During the decades after Darwin published, field geologists and paleontologists have gone on to uncover and discover thousands and thousands of fossils. They have…

— Bill Nye

“Hammond turned to Gennaro. "You know, of course, what Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler do. They are paleontologists. They dig up dinosaurs." And then…

— Michael Crichton

Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples…

— Niles Eldredge

“Since the landmark 1972 paper by Gould and Eldredge, many studies have been done both with real populations and with mathematical simulations. The results…

— Bill Nye

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

“I have blogged previously about the dangerous and deadly effects of science denialism, from the innocent babies unnecessarily exposed to deadly diseases by other…

— Donald R. Prothero

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