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Paleontologist Inspirational Quotes (774)

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If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level - indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form... Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts, to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.
Louis Agassiz
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Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
Stephen Jay Gould
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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
Thomas Huxley
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In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong, the servility of the weak, low rapacity, ephemeral pleasure purchased by great effort, death preceded by long suffering, all belong to the animals as they do to men.
Georges Cuvier
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Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.
Edward Forbes
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Everything that rises must converge.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
Nathan Myhrvold
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
Jack Horner
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Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.
Robert T. Bakker
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Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.
Stephen Jay Gould
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Select such subjects that your pupils cannot walk out without seeing them. Train your pupils to be observers, and have them provided with the specimens about which you speak. If you can find nothing better, take a house-fly or a cricket, and let each one hold a specimen and examine it as you talk.
Louis Agassiz
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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Thomas Huxley
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Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between That doesn't make sense and I don't understand.
Mary Doria Russell
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Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth
Thomas Huxley
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All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.
Stephen Jay Gould
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I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.
Robert T. Bakker
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Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and must be ... We inhabit a world of human differences and predilections, but the extrapolation of these facts to theories of rigid limits is ideology.
Stephen Jay Gould
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Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.
Stephen Jay Gould
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