Catastrophe Quote by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The history of palaeontology is littered with examples of famous frauds and fakes, often with eminent researchers in the field being thoroughly hoodwinked by…

— Alice Roberts

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

In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and…

— Earnest Hooton

“Genetic palaeontology brings clarity to a field of near-medieval confusion. The”

— Stephen Oppenheimer

“Why did Dodgson just stand there like that? That's not the way to act around predators. You get caught around lions, you make a…

— Michael Crichton

“Nature has a habit of placing some of her most attractive treasures in places where it is difficult to locate and obtain them.”

— Charles Doolittle Walcott

“Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them.”

— David Kitts

“There is no final truth in palaeontology. Every new observer brings something of his or her own: a new technique, a new intelligence, even…

— Richard Fortey

Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in…

— Roy Chapman Andrews

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution…

— John G. D. Clark

These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But in committing…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

I started running ultras to become a better person. I thought if you could run 100 miles you'd be in this Zen state. You'd…

— Jenn Shelton