Trevor Paglen Quotes

I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and mammoths and mammoth hunters and trilobites and giant fish that could chomp up a shark. These natural objects in motion and context make kids want to read; you can't stop them from reading and thinking.

Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

Never since we discovered there were dinosaurs did anyone get sick of them.

I've loved dinosaurs since I was teeny tiny.

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 just couldn't do a comedy show about 'The History Of Dinosaurs;' I'd get bored too easily.

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

I think, as kids, everyone is fascinated with dinosaurs. I definitely was. It is the ultimate big, huge, monster.

I have no patience with dinosaurs.

As a kid, I was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs and the day that my parents took me to Dinosaur National Park, I didn't think life could get any better.

Space is a laboratory, an experiment in all forms of all things, an infinity of possibilities, properties, and places that cry out for investigation and exploration.

Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

Have pity on a dinosaur.

The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.

I think it is all about creating characters, mixing them up with the stars and the light-years, and coming back to Earth, because we're from this universe. We're not just New York or London; we're stars.

Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself.

The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.