|
It's very simple why kids are crazy about dinosaurs -- dinosaurs are nature's Special Effects. They are the only real dragons. Kids love dragons. It's not just being weirdly shaped and being able to eat Buicks. It's that they are real.
ROBERT T. BAKKER, Honolulu Advertiser, Jul. 9, 2000
The great extinction that wiped out all of the dinosaurs, large and small, in all parts of the world, and at the same time brought to an end various lines of reptilian evolution, was one of the outstanding events in the history of life and in the history of the earth.... It was an event that has defied all attempts at a satisfactory explanation.
EDWIN H. COLBERT, The Age of Reptiles
The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.
ARTHUR C. CLARKE, forward, Collected Stories
Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations.
Great white sharks, big storms - somehow, I think we like to be put in our place by awesome things. Dinosaurs do that.
SUE HENDRICKSON, Honolulu Advertiser, Jul. 9, 2000
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, The Dinosaur Heresies
The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
ERIC JOHNSTON, Today's Realtor, Jan. 1998
Scientists are complaining that the new Dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give kids a mistaken impression. What about the fact that the dinosaurs are singing and dancing?
JAY LENO, The Tonight Show
It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound.... Birds, as a group, did descend from dinosaurs and ... all 8,600 species of birds living today carry some inheritance from their reptilian ancestors.
DAVID RAUP, Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck
It is bad news to science museums when four in ten Americans believe humans lived with dinosaurs, and fewer than two in ten understand the terms "molecule" and "DNA."
LARRY WITHAM, Where Darwin Meets the Bible
If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.
ROBERT T. BAKKER, The Dinosaur Heresies
Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time.
ROBERT T. BAKKER, Honolulu Advertiser, Jul. 9, 2000
|
