Robert T. Bakker Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.”

“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.”

“The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs.”

“Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking.”