Appearance Quote by Georges Cuvier

In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.

— Charles Lyell

Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials…

— John Playfair

“This is evidenced by the discovery of many ossuaries, or “bone-holders,” dating from the fifth- to the eighth-centuries CE. These held the collected sun-dried…

— Jenny Rose

...seen from above, landscapes are made up of mountains and watercourses. Just as a transparent model of the human body consists of a framework…

— Reinhold Messner

Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were…

— Robert Hooke

The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man.

— Buffalo Bill

“How much more interior can you get, after all, than the interior of bones? It's the center of the center of things. If marrow…

— Julie Powell

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

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in…

— Adlai E. Stevenson

“Geologists think the mountains were formed by several distinct tectonic events over the course of 500 million years, a span of time that represents…

— Joel Achenbach

Have you noticed that bones are always modeled and not carved, that you always have the impression they come from a mold, that they…

— Pablo Picasso

“Reconstructions based on bone remains can only reveal the most general characteristics of the creature, since the really distinctive morphological features of any animal…

— Harun Yahya