Alan Feduccia quotes
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“Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.”
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“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 FeducciaSource : "Archaeopteryx: Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms" by V. Morell, February 5, 1993.
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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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“Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.”
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“The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.”
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Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.193, Baker Books
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“In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.”
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Source : "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 57), 1986.
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“Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.”
Source : "Solar-powered plane lands safely after 26-hour flight". www.bbc.com. July 8, 2010.
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