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 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.
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.
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.
Fossils have richer stories to tell – about the lub-dub of dinosaur life – than we have been willing to listen to.
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.
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.
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.
I can’t think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.
Oaths are the fossils of piety.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’s not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage.