#dinosaur

The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface. ↗

— Jack Horner

#earth #fossils #geology #paleontology #nature

In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#blooded #dinosaurs #hot #owen #richard

The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#dinosaurs #earth #geological #history #i

To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#also #ancestors #blooded #dinosaurs #mammal

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur. ↗

— Belinda Carlisle

#i #like #mean #music #rock

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#admit #afraid #among #baseball #being

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better. ↗

— Eric Johnston

#bigness #dinosaur #eloquent #good #lesson

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled. ↗

— Steve Martin

#different #dinosaurs #evolutionary #gambled #humans

By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#based #been #could #dinosaurs #few

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#euphemism #humour #political-correctness #humour