Ancestor Quote by Zygmunt Bauman

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

— Pierre Loti

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

If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.

— Margaret Mead

You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up…

— Griffin Jay

I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.

— Lou Reed

We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.

— Heinrich Schliemann

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium…

— Charles Lyell

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

— Paul Allen

“Thanks to their hardness, teeth are often the best-preserved animal part we find in the fossil record for many time periods.”

— Neil Shubin

“Evolutionists have been digging fossil strata for about 140 years looking for these hypothetical forms. They have found millions of invertebrate fossils and millions…

— Harun Yahya

What would the world say if the Globe, now that it has at last been found, is not excavated?

— Sam Wanamaker

“In short, the fossil record is perfectly compatible with the supposition that at some time between eight and six million years ago, at the…

— Elaine Morgan