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Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time.
Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts.
I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.
Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
We would never have scales, feathers, or breasts if we didn't have teeth in the first place.
Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.
Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.
Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.
I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
You could arm-wrestle with a T. rex and win, but you shouldn't because it only makes them mad.
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
Charles Darwin viewed the fossil record more as an embarrassment than as an aid to his theory.
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories.
I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.
We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives.
Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.
Pictures are not incidental frills to a text; they are essences of our distinctive way of knowing.
Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.
[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.
The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.
I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.
Eternal vigilance, as they say, is the price of freedom. Add intellectual integrity to the cost basis.
Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.
What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.
The pathways that have led to our evolution are quirky, improbable, unrepeatable and utterly unpredictable.
Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.
Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components.
If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.
The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
Sure we fit. We wouldn't be here if we didn't. But the world wasn't made for us and it will endure without us.
What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night.
With respect to the ZPA, what kind of digit develops depends on how close the digit is to the source of Sonic hedgehog.