Biology Quote by Richard Dawkins

“When challenged by a zealous Popperian to say how evolution could ever be falsified, J. B. S. Haldane famously growled: 'Fossil rabbits in the…

— Richard Dawkins

I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.

— John B. S. Haldane

“Fossils are one of the major lines of evidence that we use to understand ourselves.”

— Neil Shubin

In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read by some…

— D. V. Ager

“I confess that the idea of taking off one's boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had…

— Richard Fortey

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

— David Kitts

“The fundamentalist Kurt Wise proclaims that all the evidence in the universe would not change his mind. The true scientist, however passionately he may…

— Richard Dawkins

“THE evidence for evolution grows by the day, and has never been stronger. At the same time, paradoxically, ill-informed opposition is also stronger than…

— Richard Dawkins

“amphibian fossils are so rare.”

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“...given sufficient ignorance, one can doubt evolution....”

— Steven E. Landsburg

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was…

— Richard Dawkins

“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families,…

— Gareth J. Nelson