About Quote by Robert T. Bakker

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

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs.…

— Jared Diamond

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

— Neil Shubin

A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more…

— David M. Raup

We are fossils in the making.

— Wallace Stegner

Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is.

— Bill Hicks

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

— Richard Brautigan

I've seen many dinosaur fossils, some mounted in museums, others in the process of being extracted from their rocky matrix, and it has never…

— Alice Roberts

The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.

— Jack Horner

“No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into…

— Henry Gee

“The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, intimidating, taking on the aura of…

— Gareth J. Nelson