Fossils were well known on the Discworld, great spiralled shells and badly-constructed creatures that were left over from the time when the Creator hadn't really decided what He wanted to make and was, as it were, just idly messing around with the Pleistocene.

~ Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites





At equilibrium, the evolutionary race is not only to the big and aggressive, but also to a certain number of the small and sneaky.

~ Psychologist David P. Barash





Geology controls destiny in the sense that biology has to adapt to the stage it's put on.

~ Paleontologist Louis Jacobs





All you need is a good story.

~ Martin Kiniski, a character in in that brilliant, short-lived Canadian TV crime drama Intelligence





Science makes the familiar strange (and vice versa).

~ derived from science writer John Whitfield





E conchis omnia. (Everything from shells.) ~ Naturalist

Erasmus Darwin





Time, to an atom locked in a rock, does not pass.

~ Naturalist Aldo Leopold



