Fossil Quotes

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. (Margaret Mead)
A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens. View quote
John Coleman
I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies. View quote
Paul Krugman
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity. View quote
Dan Lipinski
An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks, Americans sense a president so ideologically antipathetic to fossil fuels - which we possess in staggering abundance - that he is utterly unserious about the real world of oil in which the rest of us live. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or stupidity, I do not know-as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Words change their meanings, just as organisms evolve. We would impose an enormous burden on our economy if we insisted on payment in cattle every time we identified a bonus as a pecuniary advantage (from the Latin pecus, or cattle, a verbal fossil from a former commercial reality). View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be. View quote
Lindsey Graham
Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things. View quote
Francis Collins
We don't need fossils – the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record as though they were evidence against evolution. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable. (Amory Lovins)
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Any friend of fossil is a friend of mine. ... We've got to do everything we can to get people out of their automobiles and into mass transit. View quote
Michael Bloomberg
For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil. View quote
Brian May
What's it like to envision the ten-thousand-year environmental impact of tossing a plastic bottle into the trash bin, all in the single second it takes to actually toss it? Or the ten-thousand-year history of the fossil fuel being burned to drive to work or iron a shirt? It may be environmentally progressive, but it's not altogether pleasant. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil. View quote
Dennis Weaver
We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal. View quote
Albert Wynn
The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure. View quote
Dan Lipinski
It seems to me like Mother Nature's mercy and forgiveness have run dry, as we ceaselessly abuse her and take her for granted in order for us to continue our addiction to using fossil fuels. I've gotta say, I don't blame her. Not one bit. View quote
Gloria Reuben
It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them. View quote
James Hansen
I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We have to transition away from fossil fuels very, very quickly. (Josh Fox)
One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. View quote
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. View quote
Louise Leakey
I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available. View quote
Lee R. Raymond
We should be increasing research and development into our fossil fuel program. View quote
Tim Holden