Quote by Tracy Chevalier

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

— Neil Shubin

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

— E.J.H. Corner

“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

“The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer.”

— Carl Sagan

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

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

“He wrote that if great sex were necessary to make babies, humans would be fossils by now.”

— Randi Hutter Epstein

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

— Donald Revell

“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

“Then he realized it was the most natural thing in the world, which was precisely why he was incapable of it.”

— Paolo Giordano

“She began to lose the will to live sometime after he uttered the words rock strata and began a detailed explanation about the different…

— Emma V. Leech

“...But living creatures are strange. They are made in such a way that they can actualize only what their minuscule minds wish for.”

— Sosuke Aizen

“If the world and all its species of animals and plants were created at once by some supernatural force or event, we might expect…

— Bill Nye