Top 15 Fossils Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Fossils Quotes from famous people such as Adrienne Mayor, Georges Cuvier, Alice Roberts, Robert T. Bakker, George Gaylord Simpson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I have discovered that if you take all the places of Gr

I have discovered that if you take all the places of Greek myths, those specific locales turn out to be abundant fossil sites, but there is also a lot of natural knowledge embedded in those myths, showing that Greek perceptions about fossils were pretty amazing for prescientific people.
Adrienne Mayor
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
I’ve seen many dinosaur fossils, some mounted in museums, others in the process of being extracted from their rocky matrix, and it has never occurred to me that any could be anything other than genuine.
Alice Roberts
Fossils have richer stories to tell – about the lub-dub of dinosaur life – than we have been willing to listen to.
Robert T. Bakker
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
Venice is truly magical. The Devon-Dorset coast in England is so beautiful, and its sandstone cliffs are full of fossils, which can make for some very exciting walks. And I love Halifax, a great place with all the modern things you could want, plus a wonderful sense of history, and, of course, the sea.
Jo Beverley
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
I can’t think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.
Richard Leakey
Oaths are the fossils of piety.
George Santayana
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
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
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
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
Many scholars are not used to perceiving natural knowledge expressed in mythological language. If the study of fossils was not mentioned by Aristotle or Thucydides, and it wasn’t, then it just didn’t exist for many classicists and ancient historians.
Adrienne Mayor
It’s not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage.
Dario Fo