53 Quotes About Fossils


  • Author Robert T. Bakker
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    Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.

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  • Author Charles Darwin
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    Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

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  • Author Alan Feduccia
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    On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as 'dino-fuzz', have nothing to do with bird feathers... I, and many others, do not find any credible evidence that those structures represent protofeathers.

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  • Author Jean Henri Fabre
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    Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

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  • Author Dan Gebo
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    They don't all look alike. There are some very different shapes, with implications of how these fossils walked.

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  • Author Greg Graffin
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    A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.

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  • Author Jack Herer
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    You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

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