Honour Quote by Richard Dawkins Download Open image “I personally would consider it to be an honour to be fossilized.” — Richard Dawkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Honour
We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
“Most living things never get fossilized, and most fossils end up in places where they are impossible to discover. It is impressive that paleontologists have been able to reconstruct the lives of individual plants and animals. It is downright amazing that they have found enough fossils to deduce the broad sweep of evolution’s great busts and booms—including one wild episode… — Bill Nye Copy Share
The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
“Thanks to their hardness, teeth are often the best-preserved animal part we find in the fossil record for many time periods.” — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it means that the complete fossil legacy of all the Americans alive today - that's 270 million people with 206 bones each - will only be about 50 bones, one-quarter of a complete skeleton. That's not… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
“Wherever sufficiently numerous series of the remains of any given group, which has endured for a long space of time, are carefully examined, their… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Every living being is also a fossil. Within it, all the way down to the microscopic structure of its proteins, it bears the traces… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
At the deepest level, all living things that have ever been looked at have the same DNA code. And many of the same genes. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I have found it an amusing strategy, when asked whether I am an atheist, to point out that the questioner is also an atheist… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Or why it is acceptable to train fast runners and high jumpers but not to breed them. I can think of some answers, and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“It seems to me, that you people spend a great deal of time talking about honour, but strip away the high sounding words and… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Of all graces, faith honours Christ the most; of all graces, Christ honours faith the most. — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
“Hero' is not an official status or designation, but if the world recognize you as a hero, it is the highest honor you will… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished,… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
