Fossils quotes
107 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I am particularly fond of [Emmanuel Mendes da Costa's] Natural History of Fossils because this treatise, more than any other work written in English, records a short episode expressing one of the grand false starts in the history of natural science and nothing can be quite so informative and instructive as a juicy mistake."
"Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed."
"It makes no sense to invest in [fossil fuel] companies that undermine our future"
"We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow."
"I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here."
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"The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be."
"What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return"
"The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualist accounts of evolution."
"Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe"
"Language is fossil Poetry."
"Oaths are the fossils of piety."
"If somebody tries to tell me the earth was created in 7 days I take a fossil and say "FOSSIL". If he still won't shut up I throw it at him."
"We have fossils... We win!"
"Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress."
"Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between."
"So many people are on the front lines of this fossil fuel frenzy. It is infused with a sense of urgency."
"Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant."
"Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes."
"Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory."
"Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process only from its modern results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities. For many roads lead to almost any Rome."
"I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed."
"I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us."
"Every single record I have is a fossil."
