Fossilize Quotes & Sayings

Eat turkey all night long, 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong. — Adam Sandler

Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had no fossils at all, and still the evidence for evolution from other sources, such as molecular genetics and geographical distribution, would be overwhelmingly strong. On the other hand, evolution makes the strong prediction that if a single fossil turned up in the wrong geological stratum, the theory would be blown out of the water. — Richard Dawkins

If you do not advertise, you fossilize. — Thomas Roberts

She found fault with every dish put in front if her, including the salt, which she declared was not salty enough. — Terry Pratchett

The only way to live a life without regret is to make sure each unit of time that passes is being converted into product — Sunday Adelaja

God made alcohol and he made feet - and he made 'em so you could put 'em together and be happy! — Robert A. Heinlein

We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it? — Thomas Carlyle

None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of extant primate with which human beings share such close physical characteristics. From them we may learn much concerning the behavior of our earliest primate prototypes, because behavior, unlike bones, teeth, or tools, does not fossilize. — Dian Fossey

Feminism is built on believing women's accounts of sexual use and abuse by men. — Catharine MacKinnon

New believers are the lifeblood of the church. We can either evangelize or fossilize. — Greg Laurie

I published that theory [of speciational evolution] in a 1954 paper ... and I clearly related it to paleontology. Darwin argued that the fossil record is very incomplete because some species fossilize better than others ... I noted that you are never going to find evidence of a small local population that changed very rapidly in the fossil record ... Gould was my course assistant at Harvard where I presented this theory again and again for three years. So he knew it thoroughly. So did Eldredge. In fact, in his 1971 paper Eldredge credited me with it. But that was lost over time. — Ernst W. Mayr

The church that does not evangelize will fossilize. — Oswald J. Smith