Convincing Quote by Jared Diamond

Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too…

— David Pilbeam

The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can see the…

— Richard Leakey

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

“I would not choose to live in any age but my own; advances in medicine alone, and the consequent survival of children with access…

— Stephen Jay Gould (Dinosaur in a Haystack

No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs

— Max Delbruck

“Since then I have learned many things, and above all the way in which dinosaurs conquer. First I had believed that disappearing had been,…

— Italo Calvino

History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically…

— Grace Lee Boggs

“I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.”

— Bartolomeo Vanzetti

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.

— M. King Hubbert

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation…

— Jean M. Auel

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

— Pierre Loti

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

— Zahi Hawass