Quotes About Palaeontology

#1. Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

Jean M. Auel

#2. If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour.

John G. D. Clark

#3. I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.

Greg Graffin

#4. Palaeontology and archaeology and other skulduggery were not subjects that interested wizards. Things are buried for a reason, they considered. There's no point in wondering what it was. Don't go digging things up in case they won't let you bury them again.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them.

David Kitts

#6. It would be hard to think of a more overlooked person in the history of palaeontology than Mary Anning,

Bill Bryson

#7. I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

Penelope Lively

#8. To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.

C.S. Lewis

#9. I was a math guy as a kid. I was really good at math. I wasn't particularly interested in it.

Grover Norquist

#10. We want a world with both historians and novelists, don't we? Not with one or the other. Every fiction writer crosses the line that divides artistry and documentation - or erases it.

Alan Cheuse

#11. Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me.

Danny Brown

#12. Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.

Jimmy Buffett

#13. It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

Cyndi Lauper

#14. The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.

Molly Ivins

#15. A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded.
No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought.

Diana Gabaldon

#16. It's all about loving your parents.

Karan Johar

#17. I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.

Barry Sonnenfeld

#18. Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

Andrew Lang

#19. Stay positive, stay strong, stay together and just keep going!

Tanya Masse

#20. There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. - WALT DISNEY

Ellery Adams

#21. Export anything to a friendly country except American management.

W. Edwards Deming

#22. Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

Derek Walcott