Bears Quote by Werner Herzog

It's like . . . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.

— Dan Wells

In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints…

— John Reader

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

— Bill Hicks

“There is strong geological evidence that the period from 380 million to 365 million years ago is the critical time. The younger rocks in…

— Neil Shubin

“Seth and I used to like to picture how our world would look to visitors someday, maybe a thousand years in the future, after…

— Karen Thompson Walker

Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in…

— Michael Crichton

“While humans have been cooking, making music, and building for thousands of years, archaeologists have yet to discover those cave paintings of Man at…

— Ka Wai Cheung

The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion…

— Robert Jastrow

I don't really know what's going to happen 10,000 years from now. We've been biologically modern for, what, almost 200,000 years? Let's go back…

— Jimenez Lai

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

“Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made…

— Sheri S. Tepper

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

— Ken Burns