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The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and an issue of universal scientific interest.

— Simon Conway Morris

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✓Similar Perspectives

When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and we also take a digital photograph of the specimen, so we could essentially put it back on the surface, exactly where we found it.

— Louise Leakey

I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.

— Jim Ratcliffe

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

— Richard Leakey

Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.

— Charles Lyell

We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.

— Richard Leakey

The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.

— Jack Horner

All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in the wrong place.

— Richard Dawkins

I think there's so much we don't know and the unknown in the ocean; every 10 years or so, we find some fossil that's been there before mankind.

— Ving Rhames

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

— Richard Leakey

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

— Georges Cuvier

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