"Language is fossil Poetry." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide… — Arthur C. Clarke
• Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we're taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable… — Jimmy Carter
• It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By… — Georges Cuvier
• Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins,… — Jacques Monod
• We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have… — Oliver Goldsmith
• Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population… — Ernst Mayr
• Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the… — Lynn Margulis
• The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our… — Stephen Jay Gould
• On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the… — Simon Conway Morris
• In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order… — Earnest Hooton
• Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do.… — Richard Dawkins

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