Precambrian Funny Quote by Richard Fortey

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

— Tracy Chevalier

“The fossil record quietly accounts for me...”

— Donald Revell

“I thought that there could be no revolt against nature. I accepted the landscape without dreaming that, behind, there still prowled large skeletons without…

— Roger Vitrac

“In a world full of fossils, the slightest movement of a pebble on the slope of the cliff is nearly enough to bring on…

— Muriel Barbery

“if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

“But again, it’s as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears and past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.”

— Lauren Oliver

“...but I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.”

— E.J.H. Corner

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

— Neil Shubin

“So the first dinosaur bone ever found was also the first to be lost.”

— Bill Bryson

“They come with cold bones in heavy boots. See how they tremble. The folly of man . . .”

— Becky Wright

“If he had not been a small degree civilized, he very probably would not have troubled himself with boots at all; but then, if…

— Herman Melville

“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