Steven Hall Quotes

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

Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.

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.

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

Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

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.

My kids and I sometimes will just sit in my office and talk about what the world was like 68 million years ago. Amanda, our oldest daughter, wanted to be a paleontologist for a long time.

I grew up loving dinosaurs, digging up things.

I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.

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

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.

I have no patience with dinosaurs.

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.

All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils in the wrong place.

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

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

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.

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.

There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.

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

I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.

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