Scientist Quotes

I can't travel without Sudoku.

I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72 percent of what is going on.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

I am a geologist.

Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

Don't confuse facts with reality.

Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing.

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

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.

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

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.

Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil.

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

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.

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.

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.

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.

It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything.

In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded.

I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic.

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

I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.

Feathers predate birds.