Burgess Shale Quotes & Sayings

Putting on weight for me is really, really hard. If I stop lifting, or if I stop eating, I get skinny really quick. — Christopher Gorham

Tis a sort of coquetry to boast that we never coquet. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The idea of decimation as a lottery converts the new iconography of the Burgess Shale into a radical view about the pathways of life and the nature of history ... May our poor and improbable species find joy in its new-found fragility and good fortune! Wouldn't anyone with the slightest sense of adventure, or the most weakly flickering respect for intellect, gladly exchange the old cosmic comfort for a look at something so weird and wonderful - yet so real - as *Opabinia*? — Stephen Jay Gould

Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay. — Stephen Jay Gould

Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame. — John Bevere

He sees our lineal success as a fortunate fluke: "Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay." Gould — Bill Bryson

So, in effect, what I'm saying is that my research is very strongly pointing to the fact that the extraterrestrials are not coming, they're not going to invade, they've actually been controlling this planet, increasingly, for thousands of years. — David Icke

I'm about my characters. — Abel Ferrara

I don't need to be inspired any longer, just supported. — Kurt Cobain

The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest. — Simon Conway Morris