Quotes by Fossils Language is fossil Poetry. Ralph Waldo Emerson fossilslanguagepoetry There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things. Rebecca Solnit himalayasfossilsdifferent Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written. Richard Brautigan fossilslanguagedoe We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels. Richard Branson coalfossilsfuel To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils. Richard Leakey fossilsimportantmen When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate only where they became fossilized. Richard Leakey fossilshuntingforget Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right. Richard Dawkins fossilsfoundanimal Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant. Ralph Waldo Emerson fossilsplantgovernment Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petrochemical products. Robert Higgs fossilslittlesappreciation The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms. Robert Jastrow fossilsrecordsdevelopment I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus - living fossils - so we will never forget what these people stood for. Rush Limbaugh fossilstwopeople 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. Stephen Jay Gould fossilsdesignimagination 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. Stephen Jay Gould emmanuelfossilsmistake Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory. Stephen Jay Gould fossilsrecordsevolution 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. Stephen Jay Gould fossilsromecauses 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. Stephen King fossilsunbrokensucceed I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. Sylvia Plath fossilsnumb Burning fossil fuels has given us the gift of seeing ourselves in new ways. But that very gift now enables us to see we've got to change our ways. Sylvia Earle burningfossilsfuel We've got to alter our fossil fuel dependence and go to other energy sources. Sylvia Earle fossilsfuelenergy Our insatiable appetite for fossil fuels and the corporate mandate to maximize shareholder value encourages drilling without taking into account the costs to the ocean, even without major spills. Sylvia Earle fossilscostocean«123456»
