Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

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.

When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur and so that's what I've been striving for all of my life.

In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.

Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

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

Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.

I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

We walked through night until there was a poem.

It is said that ‘Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder’. I say, ‘Perfection lies in the heart of the receiver.

We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.

Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story.

If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.

Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.