Fossilized Quotes

The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The best thing about these places is that large -- as in macroscopic -- buried fossilized material is usually weathering out of the outcrops. One can see them laying about and follow the fragments to the source. For microscopic fossils, of course, no clear obvious clues are usually present. The exception is large scale microbial mats like those that made stromatolites and algal travertiles and tufa. - Penelope Boston

That's pretty much been it. They weren't able to reconstruct any complete skeletons. But the bone, if you didn't know it was fossilized, it looked like modern bone. - Danny Walker

In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake. - Josiah Strong

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out. - Richard Leakey