Dinosaurs Quotes - Page 7

• Dinosaur fossils were placed in rocks by prankster God just to make human beings think the world is older than it is.

  Bill Hicks

  Thinking, Rocks, World

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• I myself have not met a self‐confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the “typical liberal” — as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Self, Class, Two

  "Spock Mugged" by Wilfrid Sheed, www.nytimes.com. January 7, 1973.

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• If it's really true, that the museum at Liberty University has dinosaur fossils which are labelled as being 3000 years old, then that is an educational disgrace. It is debauching the whole idea of a university, and I would strongly encourage any members of Liberty University who may be here to leave and go to a proper university.

  Richard Dawkins

  Educational, Museums, Years

  "Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science". Book by Richard Dawkins, 2015.

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• I love stories where the impossible appears believable, plausible and real. Maybe it's silly, but it's one of the reasons Michael Crichton's writing always appealed to me: he took outlandish ideas and made them seem completely within the realm of possibility. I remember reading "Jurassic Park" and feeling like: "Oh, yeah - no, that's totally happening right now. They're bringing back dinosaurs!"

  J. J. Abrams

  Real, Silly, Reading

  "J. J. Abrams: By the Book". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. October 24, 2013.

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• The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Roles, Extinction, History Of Life

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• Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time.

  Robert T. Bakker

  Kids, Adults, Way

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• at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits of great-grandmothers, curtains of a particular shade; your deserts; your private dinosaurs; the first woman) all i need to know: tell me everything just as it was from the beginning.

  Margaret Atwood

  Ocean, Grandmother, Garden

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us.

  Al Gore

  Inspirational, Cutting, Loss

  Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.10, Rodale

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• Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.

  China Mieville

  Children, Book, Dragons

  “This much I know” by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2004.

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• In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.

  Werner Herzog

  Half, Faces, Punctuation

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• Do you know how hard it is to gather seventy thousand people? Especially people who are confused and scared that they might be eaten by hungry dinosaurs?

  D. J. MacHale

  Confused, People, Might

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “The Soldiers of Halla”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

  Jim Butcher

  Call Me, Fairs

  Jim Butcher (2008). “White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.140, Penguin

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• He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone"(117).

  J. M. Coetzee

  Long, Mind, One Day

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Disgrace”, p.117, Random House

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• I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Giants, Half

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• People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Bad Ass, People

  "A Teacher, a Student and a Church-State Dispute". Letter to the New York Times, query.nytimes.com. December 21, 2006.

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• A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Cells, Elephants, Hydrogen Atom

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• Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Space, Thumbs, Today

  Neil Degrasse Tyson (2010). “The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist”, p.66, Prometheus Books

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• You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.

  Neil Gaiman

  Barbecue, Knows

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• We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Rocks, Tourism, Tourists

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of development have had no purpose other than to put him on earth. There is no scientific evidence whatever to support such a view and no reason to suppose that our stay here will be any more permanent than that of the dinosaur.

  David Attenborough

  Men, Views, Years

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• Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

  Richard Dawkins

  Death, Different, William The Conqueror

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.399, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.

  Steven Chu

  Energy, World, Next

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• Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Mean, Science

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself, but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment, nor a conviction that such capacity, rather than such density, is the true test of whether he is civilized.

  Aldo Leopold

  Science, Average, Civilization

  Aldo Leopold (1937). “Game Management 118”

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• The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.

  Richard Owen

  Character, Science, Order

  Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science "Report on British Fossil Reptiles" (1842)

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