Giovanni Battista Brocchi famous quotes

The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.
-- Giovanni Battista Brocchi

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Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free

There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

No matter what else happens, this is the century in which we must learn to live without fossil fuel.

Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.

Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.

First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like 'I bet Tom Stoppard doesn't have to do this' or There is no doubt David Hare would have deputed this to an underling'.