- Fossil
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Fossils Quotes
Most Famous Fossils Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best fossils quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Fossils Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Evolution
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was the kind of kid who liked omnivorously almost all kinds of science - rock collections, fossils - and I like leaves, I like plants, and I like biology.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Had
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.
- Coins
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Creation
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Birth
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Biology
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Getting
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It's not bad at all, getting a Nobel and making so many old fossils explode with rage.
- Best
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nothing
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I write in two very different places: my desk in Palo Alto, California, is piled high with myriad jumbled books and papers whose stratigraphy is a challenge. Summers in Bozeman, Montana, I write in a spare space, surrounded by interesting rocks and fossils instead of books, on an old oak table with nothing but my laptop.
- Just
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Embedded
- |
- Nov 07, 2020