Quote by Richard Fortey

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

— Tracy Chevalier

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

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

“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

“Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To owe what you had not yet earned, to have to work to earn what you had already spent, was a personal diminishment, an…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Donald Revell

“I nurtured my dinomania with documentaries, delighted in the dino-themed B movies I brought home from the video store, and tore up my grandparents'…

— Brian Switek

“Break free from the contract of employment”

— Sunday Adelaja

“I could never bring myself to read through contracts or arrangements destined for my scrutiny and subject to my care. In truth this was…

— Stefan Zweig

“Tackled some giant, burrowing beetles the other week, if you can believe that…. At that stage I didn’t know about it either – only…

— Mark Speed

If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that…

— Louise Leakey

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

— Neil Shubin