Biology Quote by Steve Backshall

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

— Michael Shermer

The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can see the…

— Richard Leakey

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

— Annie Leibovitz

Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as…

— Edward Forbes

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

— Raymond Williams

“Nearly everywhere I've been, popular wisdom has it that the location of humanity's original planet is unknown, mysterious. In fact it isn't, as anyone…

— Ann Leckie

We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields…

— Michael Shermer

It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on…

— Alfred Wegener

“It is often said that there are very few places left on earth that have yet to be discovered. But those who say this…

— Mark Miodownik

On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.

— Bryan Appleyard

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal…

— Arthur Koestler