Robert T. Bakker Quotes

The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs.

I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.

When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.

The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.

I was brought up to understand Darwin's theory of evolution. I spent hours and hours in the Natural History Museum in London looking at the descriptions of how different kinds of animals had evolved, looking at the sequence of fossil bones looking gradually more and more and more and more like the modern fossil.

I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.

Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

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.

I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.

My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.

Based on the Bible, I believe that all the land animals were made on day six, and Adam and Eve were made on day six, and people try to make fun of us for believing that dinosaurs lived with people, but there are a lot of animals living today that evolution says lived with dinosaurs.

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

You have to know evolution to understand the natural world. And that cannot be a threat to people of faith. There's a serious problem if you are forced by your faith to reject the most well-supported theory in all of science.

Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

Fresh knowledge leads to recognition of the theory of evolution as more than just a hypothesis.

The Theory of Evolution has been proved true

The theory of evolution is quite rightly called the greatest unifying theory in biology. The diversity of organisms, similarities and differ- ences between kinds of organisms, patterns of distribution and behavior, adaptation and interaction, all this was merely a bewildering chaos of facts until given meaning by the evolutionary theory.

The Theory of Evolution has had over a million chances to be wrong, but never has been.

I have no patience with dinosaurs.

I watched all these movies like 'King Kong' and 'Godzilla' when I was growing up, and the fact that dinosaurs actually lived on this earth, the fact that they are not fake, made them very fascinating.

I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.