"Palaeontology" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... change your mind and turn south—come and see these extraordinary caves. Are you interested in palaeontology?" (David hesitates) "What careless people call 'prehistoric animals' or 'prehistoric man.' They have been ridiculously misled by comic artists in Punch who imagine a few thousand years of Prehistory would take ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston
... of late, and a quantity of new and astonishing discoveries have been made. One notices, in several of these recent works on embryology, that their authors are too little acquainted with comparative anatomy and classification. Palaeontology is, unfortunately, altogether neglected by many of these new workers, although this interesting science furnishes most important facts for phylogeny, and thus often proves of very great service ...
— The Evolution of Man, V.1. • Ernst Haeckel |
