After Quote by Craig Mello

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.

— Steven Hall

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got…

— Nick Tosches

I knew I never wanted to become an archaeologist. But at school I became intrigued by what people were doing on an everyday basis…

— Juliet Aubrey

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

I love the Smithsonian. I'm a real dork for that kind of stuff.

— John Rzeznik

I'd always been fascinated by archaeology; it was my original career plan as a kid.

— Tana French

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

— Stephen Jay Gould

When I was little, I wanted to be a doctor. I was really interested in gore. My grandfather was an orthopedic surgeon and he…

— Jennifer Egan

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some…

— Jack Horner

I wanted to be in museums. I don't do things to be small.

— Amy Sherald

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

— Thelma Golden