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

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.

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.

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

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.

Today, I am blessed to be living a dream. And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace.

If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

I try to be athletic.

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.