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“The places paleontologists looked for fossils and how those fossils have been interpreted have been influenced by politics and culture, reminding us that while…

— Brian Switek

“Paleontologists found that in the past, Trilobites”

— Lee Vickers

The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are…

— David M. Raup

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily…

— George Gaylord Simpson

In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

— Jack Horner

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

“Historians and paleontologists have a great rivalry," said Tetsuo. "Most contact missions arrive too late, after history has ended. The people we wanted to…

— Leonard Richardson

“As departments, we aren't very respectful of one another. The geologists are the Rock People and Delores and Ginger are the Plant People. Here…

— Virginia Hartman

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

— George Gaylord Simpson

One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so…

— James Callis

Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount…

— Alan Feduccia

It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson