35 Quotes by Robert T. Bakker

Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts.

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

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.

When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks.

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.

It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything.

I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.

You could arm-wrestle with a T. rex and win, but you shouldn't because it only makes them mad.

The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs.