Accumulate Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how…

— David Christian

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 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

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year,…

— Richard Leakey

The evidence for evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy, but of course from molecular biology and every other branch…

— Daniel Dennett

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

Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.

— David Pilbeam

“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin…

— J. Anderson Thomson Jr

Scientists tend to build a reputation on refuting the theories of those who have gone before. Yet, whatever we hypothesize, observe, measure or record…

— Robert Winston

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

That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when…

— Carl Sagan

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

— George Gaylord Simpson