Robert T. Bakker > Quotes

“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, The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction

“Bones and rocks are eloquent storytellers, if you know how to listen to them.”
― Robert T. Bakker, Raptor Red

“The iguanodon has modest powers of self awareness. She feels happy and complacent and content. She feels efficient, in a vague "I'm doing what I should be doing and I'm doing it well" sort of way.”
― Robert T. Bakker, Raptor Red

“Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts.”
― Robert T. Bakker, The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction

“Males are such liars. I’m a bit underweight - but I don’t cover up my parasites.”
― Robert T. Bakker, Raptor Red

“Their hot-blooded growth rate propelled them into sexual maturity at the age of four or five.”
― Robert T. Bakker, Raptor Red

“segnosaur”
― Robert T. Bakker, Raptor Red

“violating Utahraptor etiquette.”
― Robert T. Bakker, Raptor Red

“Males are such liars. I’m a bit underweight - but I don’t cover up my parasites. That bug-bitten loser is lucky I didn’t slice him into little pieces.”
― Robert T. Bakker, Raptor Red

“Ornithodesmus too, very agile fliers with short, sharp-edged teeth arranged in a broad semicircle around the front of the beak.”
― Robert T. Bakker, Raptor Red

“Up again on his feet, he smashes through the pterodactyl nests clumped together at the lake bed’s center.”
― Robert T. Bakker, Raptor Red