Top 100 Quotes About Fossils
#1. If you have a carbon cap and trade system, there'd be an agreed-to limit the amount of carbon we emit. That changes the economic picture for fossil technologies and for the renewable technologies. It makes the renewable technologies more attractive and the fossils less attractive.
Vinod Khosla
#2. Lexington, met the man who would inspire four long years of unrequited love on her part, she was thinking about fossils. She didn't have any
Sherry Thomas
#3. 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 its funny side.
Richard Fortey
#4. Spent much of my life in Lyme with my eyes fixed to the ground in search of fossils. Such hunting can limit a person's perspective.
Tracy Chevalier
#5. There never will be a book, because some one else has written it for him," said Mr. Pepper with considerable acidity. "That's what comes of putting things off, and collecting fossils, and sticking Norman arches on one's pigsties.
Virginia Woolf
#6. 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
#7. He wrote that if great sex were necessary to make babies, humans would be fossils by now.
Randi Hutter Epstein
#8. Recently a piece of Martian rock has been recovered from Antarctica. NASA has discovered fossils of bacteria-like organisms on this rock, suggesting that life could have come on earth from outer space.
Girish Chandra
#9. God placed the fossils there when He created the rocks, to test our faith, he responded at last. As He is clearly testing yours Miss Philpot.
It is my faith in you that is being tested, I thought.
Tracy Chevalier
#10. Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.
Pierre Loti
#11. Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is.
Bill Hicks
#12. In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
#13. A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#14. When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.
Donald Johanson
#15. Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.
Delphine De Vigan
#16. 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
#17. Periods in the wilderness or desert were not lost time. You might find life, wildflowers, fossils, sources of water. I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.
Anne Lamott
#18. Stories are found things, like fossils in the ground ... Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered, pre-existing world.
Stephen King
#19. I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus - living fossils - so we will never forget what these people stood for.
Rush Limbaugh
#20. If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils, agates, and carcasses in every stage of decay. Though it was water that initially shaped the state, wind is the meticulous gardener, raising dust and pruning the sage.
Gretel Ehrlich
#21. When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my 'museum'. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
#22. The Creation Museum uses fossils to present evidence that there was a global catastrophe, Noah's Flood, that killed and preserved the remains of creatures all over the earth.
Ken Ham
#23. Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil." "A which?" "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They date back two million years.
Mark Twain
#24. All a man can see while looking at the sky are cosmic fossils of thousands and millions of years ago. The only thing an astrologer can predict, is the past.
Jostein Gaarder
#25. Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.
Robert T. Bakker
#26. We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.
Richard Leakey
#27. What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.
Rajneesh
#28. [On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
Marianne Moore
#29. After 3.8 billion years of research and development, failures are fossils, and what surrounds us is the secret to our survival.
Janine M. Benyus
#30. We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as geology, paleontology, biogeography, comparative anatomy and physiology, molecular biology, genetics, and many more.
Michael Shermer
#31. Married women that I noticed, their solid smugness at not having to worry about the course of their future. Married women were set like jelly in a mold, whereas spinsters like me were formless and unpredictable. I patted my basket. I have my own fossils,
Tracy Chevalier
#32. There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans
Chris Stringer
#33. In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which the genre's leading practitioners contributed what they considered their finest. Alas, literature the stories ain't; they appear more like fossils from a spent mine.
Clive Sinclair
#34. Not to take this web of dualities as a sign we are on the right track would be a bit like believing that God put fossils into the rocks in order to mislead Darwin about the evolution of life.
Stephen Hawking
#35. There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.
Rebecca Solnit
#36. Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.
Carl Zimmer
#37. Hey, I'll have you know that with recent 3D imaging, Ichthyosaurus communis is more alive than ever!"
"Talk like the Discovery Channel all you want, but a book of fossils and a tub of plaster does not an orgy make.
Gina Damico
#38. There would be no more presents of fossils or bribes of sweet desserts, no more ambushing kisses, no more challenges, no more Drew. The rocks in her gut turning to blocks of ice, she took a step toward the den, intent on following his fading scent.
Nalini Singh
#39. We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution
Richard Dawkins
#40. Sentiment and brutality, never one without the other, like fossils and oil.
Saul Bellow
#41. Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen.
Duane T. Gish
#43. Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes.
Torbern Bergman
#44. In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.
Franz Grillparzer
#45. There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art. I have a few on my wall.
Eva Green
#46. It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.
Lauren Oliver
#47. Anning would spend the next thirty-five years gathering fossils, which she sold to visitors. (She is commonly held to be the source for the famous tongue twister "She sells seashells on the seashore.")
Bill Bryson
#48. All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in the wrong place.
Richard Dawkins
#49. For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.
Richard Leakey
#50. I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.
Zachary Cole Smith
#51. Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.
Tracy Chevalier
#53. Evolution across the universe was nothing but the endless proliferation of automatic, organized complexity, a vast arid Turing machine full of self-replicating machinery forever unaware of its own existence. And we - we were the flukes and the fossils. We
Peter Watts
#54. If we were fossils of two snails
caught in a rock for millions of years.
Would we know we were together?
Natasha Tsakos
#55. The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.
Simon Conway Morris
#56. Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.
Martha Stewart
#57. I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.
Richard Leakey
#58. Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process only from its modern results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities. For many roads lead to almost any Rome.
Stephen Jay Gould
#59. Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.
Georges Cuvier
#60. He's just rather more lively than most fossils.
Tamora Pierce
#61. A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction.
Carol Shields
#62. Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?
Lewis Black
#63. The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.
Antonio Gramsci
#65. In a world full of fossils, the slightest movement of a pebble on the slope of the cliff is nearly enough to bring on a whole series of heart attacks-so you can imagine what happens when someone dynamites the whole mountain!
Muriel Barbery
#66. Then he took me to look at the Maastricht animal, still today one of the world's most famous fossils. (Though the Netherlands has repeatedly asked for it back, the French have held on to it for more than two hundred years.)
Elizabeth Kolbert
#67. To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.
Richard Leakey
#68. The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.
George Mercer Dawson
#69. Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.
Richard Brautigan
#70. F you could forget mortality ... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on proving. Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the making, to be buried and eventually exposed again for the puzzlement of creatures of later eras.
Wallace Stegner
#71. Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#72. Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes a negative of the image. And this negative comes off, and the fossil is the positive side. This is the same as the action of photography.
Hiroshi Sugimoto
#73. If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.
Daido Moriyama
#74. I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.
John B. S. Haldane
#75. It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student ... have now been debunked.
D. V. Ager
#76. You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine from one that's based on fossil fuels to one that isn't.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#77. We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
Bill McKibben
#78. We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much ... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.
David M. Raup
#79. Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory ...
Stephen Jay Gould
#80. Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
D. V. Ager
#81. The known fossil record fails to document a single example of phyletic evolution i.e., a species becoming a new species accomplishing a major morphological transition and hence offers no evidence that the gradualistic model can be valid.
Steven M. Stanley
#82. The mineral kingdom consists of the fossil substances found in the earth. These are either entirely destitute of organic structure, or, having once possessed it, possess it no longer: such are the petrefactions.
Torbern Bergman
#83. I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.
Stephen King
#84. This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.
Jim Wallis
#85. Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.
Lee Iacocca
#86. Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#87. Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.
Theodore Roosevelt
#88. The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.
Robert Jastrow
#89. Our dependence on fossil fuels amounts to global pyromania, and the only fire extinguisher we have at our disposal is renewable energy.
Hermann Scheer
#90. We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels
Richard Branson
#92. The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion.
Gareth J. Nelson
#93. Anyone who would tackle our current addiction to fossil fuels is going to have to maneuver around denial.
William H. Calvin
#94. Trusting your energy policy to the fossil fuel lobby is like trusting your health care system to the tobacco lobby.
William H. Calvin
#95. Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
Francis Bacon
#96. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.
Stephen Jay Gould
#97. Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.
Carl Sandburg
#98. The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it
Adair Turner
#99. Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.
Fatih Birol
#100. Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.
David M. Raup
