America Quote by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

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

— Richard Leakey

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

All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils…

— Richard Dawkins

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

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there…

— Charles Lyell

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.

— Jeremy Hardy

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

— Charles Stewart Parnell

Geographically, we are at the periphery of Europe, but I don't see Ireland in that way. The way I see us is as an…

— Leo Varadkar

I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

— John Stuart Mill

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.

— Tom Kettle

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

— Winston Churchill

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

— Caroline Corr