Biology Quote by Richard Dawkins

“As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.”

— Richard Dawkins

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

— John B. S. Haldane

“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

“Most living things never get fossilized, and most fossils end up in places where they are impossible to discover. It is impressive that paleontologists…

— Bill Nye

“If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years…

— Richard Dawkins

Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he…

— Dean H. Kenyon

“amphibian fossils are so rare.”

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“Sometimes I believe evolution is an insult to the apes.”

— Tonya Johnson

A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.

— Sylvia Plath

“Nothing proves evolution more than the survival of the religious belief. It shows we are still fearful, partially formed animals with a terror of…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Steven E. Landsburg