“Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.”— Georges Cuvier
“Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.”— Georges Cuvier
“The lowest and most level parts of the earth, when penetrated to a very great depth, exhibit nothing but horizontal strata composed of various substances, and containing almost all of them innumerable marine productions.”— Georges Cuvier
“The fossil record is not a book; it is a series of documents, some of which are lost, some of which are illegible.”— George Gaylord Simpson
“If the species have changed by degrees, we ought to find traces of these gradual modifications... and yet no such discovery has ever been made.”— Georges Cuvier
“The fossil record is like a book with most of its pages missing, and the pages that are there are torn and tattered.”— Donald Johanson