Palaeontologist Quotes & Sayings

As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them. — Arthur Schopenhauer

There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger. — Keith Haring

The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation. We have said - to the point of repletion, perhaps - that man is not to take his patterns from nature; but neither is he to waste himself in seeking to change her face. — Richard M. Weaver

I'd never been a talker in sex. Never saw the allure of dirty whispers. But now all I could think about was talking filthy and wrong. — Pepper Winters

As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake. — Ed Yong

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs. — Steven Hall

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold

So, how's it going? You seeing some art and history or you too busy trying to slap your pecker against anything with a wet spot?" "No, I saw some art. We spent like two hours in the Louvre." "Nice. Two thousand years of priceless works of art and you bust through it in two hours. Eat shit, da Vinci," he said. "Where you heading next? — Justin Halpern

in painted quiet and concentration — Wislawa Szymborska

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics. — Mark Gatiss

These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But in committing them to paper I found it advisable to alter and add a good deal, to enable the reader without specialized training to follow me along the winding paths of palaeontology and prehistory. — Gustav Heinrich Ralph Von Koenigswald