paleontology

🇺🇸Stephen Jay Gould

Science

1941–2002

"The enemy is not fundamentalism; it is intolerance. In this case, the intolerance is perverse since it masquerades under the “liberal” rhetoric of “equal time.” But mistake it not."

🇰🇪Richard Leakey

Politics

humanism

1944–2022

"It is impossible to imagine existence in the absence of subjective sensation we call reflective consciousness."

🇺🇸Henry Fairfield Osborn

Science

1857–1935

"This chain of human ancestors was totally unknown to Darwin. He could not have even dreamed of such a flood of proof and truth."

Richard Owen

Science

1804–1892

"No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin."

🇬🇧Gideon Mantell

Science

1790–1852

"Upon fixing my residence at Lewes, I resolved to devote my leisure moments to the investigation of the "Organic remains of a former world"..."

🇬🇧William Buckland

Science

1784–1856

"The taste of mole was the most repulsive I knew until I tasted a bluebottle ."

🇺🇸George Gaylord Simpson

Science

1902–1984

"I don't think that evolution is supremely important because it is my specialty; it is my specialty because I think it is supremely important."

🇺🇸Neil Shubin

Science

b. 1960

"Just as Darwin’s theory predicted: at the right time, at the right place, we had found intermediates between two apparently different kinds of animals."

🇫🇷Georges Cuvier

Science

1769–1832

"It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them."

🇺🇸Roy Chapman Andrews

Science

1884–1960

"I wanted to go everywhere. I would have started on a day’s notice for the North Pole or the South, to the jungle or the desert. It made not the slightest difference to me."

🇺🇸Gregory Scott Paul

Art

b. 1954

"Put a leopard and a together and the former would be in trouble."

🇺🇸Robert T. Bakker

paleontology

b. 1945

"The dinosaurs are not extinct. The colorful and successful diversity of the living birds is a continuing expression of basic dinosaur biology."