Trilobites Quotes

“Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the absence of this kind of extinction new developments would not prosper. In our own history, periods when ideas have been perpetuated by dogma, preventing the replacement of old by new ideas, have also been times of stultifying stagnation. The Dark Ages in western society were the most static, least innovative of times. So the fact that trilobites were replaced by batches of successive species through their long history was a testimony to their evolutionary vigour.”
― Richard Fortey, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

“I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms.”
― Niles Eldredge

“In the Spirit Building there are thousands upon thousands of jars containing fish or snake, octopus or lobster, pickled to the life. ... As you slide the doors back upon this pallid parade of containers and bottles your voice automatically loses decibels. You reflect: mortality, this is your sad face; you defy decay only as a ghastly pickle.”
― Richard Fortey, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution

“Everyone loves pill-bugs. They're the insect version of hedgehogs.

(in Elatsoe)”
― Darcy Little Badger

“Everyone loves pill-bugs. They're the insect version of hedgehogs.”
― Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe