Back Quote by James Callis

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

— Steven Hall

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

I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.

— Luis Walter Alvarez

Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time.

— Robert T. Bakker

My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda,…

— Phil Mickelson

In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker…

— Jhonen Vasquez

I want to be a paleontologist, whether it's amateur or professional. And I want to be a humanitarian.

— Myles Garrett

Of course, as a kid, I had no idea what was practical: I wanted to be a paleontologist, then an astronaut.

— Celeste Ng

Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

— Jack Horner

“When somebody builds me a time machine, I'm taking a trip back in time to find the inventor of the necktie and strangle him…

— Marc Rainer

I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds…

— Walter Cronkite

I didn't know how this would play out when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to play ball, be a paleontologist, and…

— Myles Garrett