Chris Dutton > Chris's Quotes

“The triceratops was safe. It was across the river, separated by impassable rapids from the danger brewing on the opposite bank. But it could see what was about to happen and was powerless to stop it.”
― Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

“There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this.”
― Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

“Bats look and behave a whole lot differently than mice or foxes or elephants, but nobody would argue that they're not mammals. No, bats are just a weird type of mammal that evolved wings and developed the ability to fly. Birds are just a weird group of dinosaurs that did the same thing.”
― Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
― Thor Heyerdahl