Craig Mello Quotes

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.

I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

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

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

In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.

I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

I've seen many dinosaur fossils, some mounted in museums, others in the process of being extracted from their rocky matrix, and it has never occurred to me that any could be anything other than genuine.

My grandpa was a geologist, and I always had this fascination with not only earth sciences but ancient history.

I grew up loving dinosaurs, digging up things.

One of my kids keeps on saying that he wants to be a paleontologist, but first he wants to make a time machine, so he can go back and save the dinosaurs.

My dad does tons of voiceovers; he was Duke in 'G.I. Joe' and 'Transformers' and Handy, Lazy, and Grouchy Smurf, so I grew up with the best bed time stories ever.

I used to dig around the sandbox and pull out pieces of coal and show them to my mother, and she used to say that's how I must have known I was going to be a geologist.

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to.

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

Historical science is being left in the dust.

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.