Charcoal Quote by George Mercer Dawson

The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.

— Robert Jastrow

The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion…

— Robert Jastrow

Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in rock in…

— Albertus Magnus

When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate…

— Richard Leakey

There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

— John Hillaby

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

— Mary Leakey

Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.

— Louis Leakey

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

— Anonymous

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

— Publilius Syrus

There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body…

— Mary Leakey

Solid stone is just sand and water...Sand and water and a million years gone by.

— Beth Nielsen Chapman

In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints…

— John Reader