Paleontologists Quotes

#1. Hammond turned to Gennaro. "You know, of course, what Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler do. They are paleontologists. They dig up dinosaurs." And then he began to laugh, as if he found the idea very funny.

Michael Crichton

#2. Paleontologists do not have to search for famous "missing link" from which humans supposedly came, and current great apes. This link is simply the socialist - because he has both monkey genes.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#3. Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.

Alan Feduccia

#4. Are the different species defined by paleontologists - Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and ourselves, Homo sapiens - all part of the same gene pool or not?

Bryan Sykes

#5. at least some paleontologists believe that the demise
of the dinosaurs was accelerated by nocturnal predation on reptilian eggs by the early mammals. Two chicken eggs for breakfast may be all-at least on the surface-that is left of this ancient mammalian cuisine.

Carl Sagan

#6. Almost all paleontologists recognize that the discovery of a complete transition is in any case unlikely.

George Gaylord Simpson

#7. The places paleontologists looked for fossils and how those fossils have been interpreted have been influenced by politics and culture, reminding us that while there is a reality that science allows us to approach the process of science is a human endeavor.

Brian Switek

#8. Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

Jane Goodall

#9. I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

Luis Walter Alvarez

#10. Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.

George Gaylord Simpson

#11. Memory is a riddled thing. I would caution you from making promises you cannot keep.

Roshani Chokshi

#12. Whoever changes one life, changes the whole world.

Michele Amitrani

#13. Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

Gautam Gambhir

#14. When we are bitter about unfulfilled dreams, harboring a grudge about not getting the life we wanted or even deserved, aren't we letting venom move through our system?

Whitney Johnson

#15. Because in the end, Good and Evil are two sides of the same story: every Good comes from Evil and every Evil from Good. Just

Soman Chainani

#16. By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior selves. We would stem this flow if we were to shift attention too quickly either to their request or to our own desire to express ourselves.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#17. Cats are peaceful and tranquil - they bring calmness with their serene personalities.

Chris Evert