Dinosaurs Quotes - Page 2

• We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.

  Jared Diamond

  Stars, Ice, Design

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• The only thing we can't buy more of is time." she said. "And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.

  Dean Koontz

  Bird, Dodo Bird, Said

  Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson (2007). “Frankenstein: Prodigal Son: A Novel”, p.392, Bantam

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• I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

  Ray Bradbury

  Space, Individuality, Gorillas

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Sep 24, 2015

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• This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Guilt, Innocence

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• The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed. After the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the ginkgo was the first tree that came up. It's amazing.

  Koji Nakanishi

  Change, Science, Tree

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• You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

  Laura Dern

  Funny, Real, Dumb

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• Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

  Jared Diamond

  Optimistic, Writing, Past

  "The New Humanists: Science at the Edge" by John Brockman, Barnes & Noble Publishing, (p. 31), 2003.

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• I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

  Sam Neill

  Rain, Eggs, Choices

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

  Robert T. Bakker

  Hot, Said

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• Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone brought such grace and skill to the reconstruction of animals from disarticulated skeletons. Charles R. Knight, most celebrated of artists in the reanimation of fossils, painted all the canonical figures of dinosaurs that fire our fear and imagination to this day.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Science, Artist, Animal

  "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History".

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• If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?

  Laurence Overmire

  Thinking, Men, Years

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• Paul Ryan, who teamed up with Akin in the House to sponsor harsh anti-abortion bills, may look young and hip and new generation, with his iPod full of heavy metal jams and his cute kids. But he's just a fresh face on a Taliban creed - the evermore antediluvian, anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-gay conservative core. Amiable in khakis and polo shirts, Ryan is the perfect modern leader to rally medieval Republicans who believe that Adam and Eve cavorted with dinosaurs.

  Maureen Dowd

  Cute, Believe, Kids

  "Just think No" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human race, is deteriorating.

  Linus Pauling

  Science, Animal, Whales

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My son's always showing me pictures of dinosaurs and asking me what their names are. I dont know so I make stuff up: That son is a thesaurus.

  Craig Ferguson

  Son, Names, Asking

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• I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

  Jack Horner

  Growing Up, Montana, Firsts

  "Jack Horner knows his dinosaurs" by Peggy Mihelich, www.cnn.com. March 8, 2007.

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• I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Discovery, Skulls, Paleontology

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• Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin in the history of ideas, a vast structure of radically unsound design and with no posterity.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Ideas, History

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• Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Science, House, Details

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• Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

  Scott Adams

  Innovation, Meteors, Way

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• The chicken is a dinosaur. I mean, it really is. You can't argue with it, because we're the classifiers and we've classified it that way.

  Jack Horner

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• The costume the actors wear and if they're in stylized makeup and wigs in a live-action movie let's say, in a big costume drama, even though it does give them a sense of great ambience and environment and they kind of feel like they're in a great court, or if they feel like they're in the old west, or if they feel like they're being chased by hobbits or dinosaurs, it all comes down to the actors looking each other in the eye.

  Steven Spielberg

  Drama, Eye, Makeup

  Source: collider.com

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• Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.

  Carl Sagan

  Sagan, Observation, Conclusion

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• Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Nice, Weather, Erosion

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• What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Looks, Dirt, Bones

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• Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.

  Alan Feduccia

  Bird, Earth, Fossils

  "Archaeopteryx: Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms" by V. Morell, February 5, 1993.

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