Common Quote by Simon Conway Morris

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

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

“THIS IS NOT THE AGE OF SHALE, IT IS AN ERA OF STUPID IN THE AGE OF FAIL. KEEP IT IN THE GROUND”

— Luke Ashley

“So here is the trick to designing a new fossil expedition: find rocks that are of the right age, of the right type (sedimentary),…

— Neil Shubin

The facts of paleontology seem to support creation and the flood rather than evolution. For instance, all the major groups of invertebrates appear "suddenly"…

— Enoch

I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.

— Jim Ratcliffe

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

— Richard Leakey

“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

I personally would consider it to be an honour to be fossilized.

— Richard Dawkins

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

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity…

— Charles Lyell