“No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story—amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.”
Henry Gee
In Search of Deep Time
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil." "A which?" "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They date back two million years.”
Mark Twain
Собрание сочинений в восьми томах
“We are fossils in the making.”
Wallace Stegner
“Language is fossil Poetry.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You're not supposed to interject feelings into science, but part of the reason it's so fascinating that we're 8 percent (or more) fossilized virus is that it's so creepy that we're 8 percent (or more) fossilized virus.”
Sam Kean
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
“It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.”
Lauren Oliver
Requiem