Fossils Quotes - Page 2

• Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.

  Alan Feduccia

  Bird, Earth, Dinosaurs

  "Archaeopteryx: Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms" by V. Morell, February 5, 1993.

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• To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

  Richard Leakey

  Men, Important, Hominids

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• Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.

  Dan Lipinski

  Loss, Energy, Climate

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• A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian than it is. This probably comes from the oversimplification inevitable in secondary sources: low-level textbooks semipopular articles, and so on. Also, there is probably some wishful thinking involved. In the years after Darwin, his advocates hoped to find predictable progressions. In general. these have not been found-yet the optimism has died hard and some pure fantasy has crept into textbooks.

  David M. Raup

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone knew it but preferred to ignore it. Paleontologists, faced with a recalcitrant record obstinately refusing to yield Darwin's predicted pattern, simply looked the other way.

  Niles Eldredge

  Clothes, Yield, Long

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• We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal.

  Albert Wynn

  Moving, Hydrogen Fuel, Cells

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• In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

  Michael Pollan

  Food, Erosion, Fuel

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview With Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

  Dennis Weaver

  Oil, Addiction, Environmental

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• Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Views, Data, Fancy

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• Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Agreement, Matter, Determined

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

  Jack Herer

  Burning, Fuel, Carbon

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• Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do not know-as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Stupidity, Design, Religion

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History”, p.260, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know!

  Norman Rockwell

  Hands, Interesting, Trying

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• We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Energy, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is hardly an activity that a person can think about that does not intrinsically involve energy, most of which is currently provided by fossil fuels.

  Lee R. Raymond

  Thinking, Energy, Doe

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• Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

  Margaret Mead

  Love, Dance, Song

  "Margaret Mead: A Life". Book by Jane Howard, 1984.

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• For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.

  Brian May

  Queens, Answers, Alive

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• One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

  Lincoln Diaz-Balart

  Aggravation, Priorities, Burning Fossil Fuels

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• 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

  Unique, Icons, Issues

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• There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Moon, Energy, Burning Fossil Fuels

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence from one order to another known. In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and much disputed.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Character, Order, Gaps

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• Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Silurian age to the present day; and that during these vast, yet quite unknown, periods of time, the world swarmed with living creatures. To the question why we do not find records of these vast primordial periods, I can give no satisfactory answer.

  Charles Darwin

  Giving, Long, Age

  Charles Darwin (1866). “On the origin of species ... A facsimile of the first edition, with an introduction by Ernst Mayr. With a portrait and a bibliography”, p.370

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• Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Groups, Paleontology, Levels

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History”, p.260, W. W. Norton & Company

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• But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.

  Charles Darwin

  Lying, Believe, Theory Of Evolution

  Charles Darwin (2012). “On the Origin of the Species and The Voyage of the Beagle”, p.162, Graphic Arts Books

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• Football is my life. There is no question about that.

  Chad Ochocinco

  Football

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