Robert Bakker Quotes & Sayings

When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks. — Robert T. Bakker

Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts. — Robert T. Bakker

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum. — Robert T. Bakker

To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also. — Robert T. Bakker

My name is Matthew Swift. I'm a sorcerer, the only one in the city who survived Robert Bakker's purge. I was killed by my teacher's shadow and my body dissolved into telephone static and all they had left to bury was a bit of blood. Then we came back, and I am we and we are me, and we are the blue electric angels, creatures of the phones and the wires, the gods made from the surplus life you miserable excuse for mortals pour into all things electric. I am the Midnight Mayor, the protector of the city, the guardian of the night, the keeper of the gates, the watcher on the walls. We turned back the death of cities, we were there when Lady Neon died, we drove the creature called Blackout into the shadows at the end of the alleys, we are light, we are life, we are fire and, would you believe it, the word that best describes our condition right now is cranky.
Would you like to see what happens when you make us mad? — Kate Griffin

I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest. — Robert T. Bakker

I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull. — Robert T. Bakker

I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic. — Robert T. Bakker

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. — Robert T. Bakker

Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado. — Robert T. Bakker

I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool. — Robert T. Bakker

I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS. — Robert T. Bakker

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. — Robert T. Bakker

I was the apprentice of Robert James Bakker. I'm sure you've heard of him. I am a sorcerer. I was there when Bakker died. We ... made it happen. I too have met death, and did not have to peel the bones away from my chest to survive the encounter. I am also, and incidentally, the Midnight Mayor, the blue electric angels, the fire in the wire, the song in the telephones, and we are having a bad week. Be smart; fear us. — Kate Griffin

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

In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded. — Robert T. Bakker

One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered. — Robert T. Bakker

As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator. — Robert T. Bakker

You could arm-wrestle with a T. rex and win, but you shouldn't because it only makes them mad. — Robert T. Bakker

It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything. — Robert T. Bakker

Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to. — Robert T. Bakker

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 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

Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod. — Robert T. Bakker

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones. — Robert T. Bakker

I love museums more than any other institution the human race has invented. Museum people are always overworked and underpaid, and they all deserve sainthood, every one. — Robert T. Bakker

One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife. — Robert T. Bakker

Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested. — Robert T. Bakker

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil. — Robert T. Bakker

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. — Robert T. Bakker

Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time. — Robert T. Bakker

The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs. — Robert T. Bakker

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs. — Robert T. Bakker