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What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists — John Lubbock, The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live in
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Scienc — Walt Whitman, Complete Prose Works
No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossib — Henry Gee, In Search of Deep Time
The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it o — Gareth J. Nelson
The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, int — Gareth J. Nelson
As long as we're tied to Middle Eastern oil we're tied to Middle Eastern politics. We're hostages to the terrorists and — Ben Bova, Powersat
We can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present. — Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Language is fossil poetry — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pace the shallow sea, walking the time between, reflecting on the type of fossil I’d like to be. I guess I’d like my b — Ann Zwinger, Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on — Honoré de Balzac, The Wild Ass's Skin
We need to stop using fossil fuels as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the two leading replacements of wind and solar ha — Steven Magee
In your hands I am no longer a pile of bones left behind to a world that moved on. — Taylor Patton
The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of c — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Wherever sufficiently numerous series of the remains of any given group, which has endured for a long space of time, are — Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
In the future, it may turn out that fossil fuels are the blood of the Earth and by extracting them may lead to serious c — Steven Magee, Solar Radiation, Global Warming and Human Disease
Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the pas — Jean-Henri Fabre, The Life and Love of the Insect
I consoled myself with Granddaddy's words on the fossil record and the Book of Genesis: It was more important to underst — Kelly Jacqueline
It is curious why anybody should pooh-pooh a study of fossils or various forms of rocks or lava. Such things grant us ou — Ernest Vincent Wright, Gadsby
Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen. — Duane T. Gish
All a man can see while looking at the sky are cosmic fossils of thousands and millions of years ago. The only thing an — Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World