Quotes and Sayings About Fossils
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The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it
-- Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell -
The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.
-- Al Gore -
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.
-- Alan Feduccia -
I ask citizens and governments everywhere to do their part by conserving energy and reducing the use of fossil fuels for the good of the world community. This is our duty to those who share this world with us and to those who follow us: Wherever we see a threat to our environment we must take action
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)
-- Bill McKibben -
There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources.
-- Bill McKibben -
Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free
-- Bill McKibben -
Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
-- Charles Darwin -
There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans
-- Chris Stringer -
Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundance—and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive with fossil fuels. In combination, these energy options represent the most robust alternative to the current energy system, capable of providing the diverse array of energy services that a modern economy requires. Given the urgency of the climate problem, that is indeed convenient.
-- Christopher Flavin -
Palaeontologists cannot live by uniformitarianism alone. This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record.
-- D. V. Ager -
There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that this is so. It is simply a fact, Darwin's theory and the fossil record are in conflict.
-- David Berlinski -
No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.
-- David Goodstein -
We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.
-- David M. Raup -
The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.
-- David Suzuki -
Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.
-- Delphine de Vigan -
We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.
-- Desmond Tutu -
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.
-- Donald Johanson -
A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.
-- Edith Hamilton -
We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have lived neither here nor there, consequently anywhere, for we are aboriginal foreigners, transplanted from birth in our respective countries of origin.
-- Enrique Lihn -
Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent…The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record. New species usually appear in the fossil record suddenly, not connected with their ancestors by a series of intermediates.
-- Ernst Mayr -
Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologist finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series.
-- Ernst Mayr -
A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.
-- Francis Crick -
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.
-- George Gaylord Simpson -
The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.
-- George Mercer Dawson -
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.
-- Georges Cuvier -
It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected.
-- Georges Cuvier
