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Stephen Jay Gould

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

Phil Mickelson

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.

– Phil Mickelson

Myles Garrett

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 write poetry. I thought, ‘Heck, where will I find the time? Well, football comes first, and I’ll just find some time for poetry, and paleontology can come at the end.’ I made this plan at 14, and dang, it’s all coming together.

– Myles Garrett

Jhonen Vasquez

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.

– Jhonen Vasquez

James Callis

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.

– James Callis

Jack Horner

I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs to have been extremely social.

– Jack Horner

George Gaylord Simpson

Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences.

– George Gaylord Simpson

Dee Bradley Baker

When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies and sci-fi, and then ‘Star Wars’ came out, and I was completely out of my mind with that, with ‘Close Encounters,’ and then I thought maybe I was going to go into special effects makeup, which I thought was awesome.

– Dee Bradley Baker

Craig Mello

One of the things that I first remember wanting to be was a ‘geolisty’ – that was the best I could say when I was a kid. That was right after I stopped wanting to be a fireman or a truck driver. Because my dad is a paleontologist who worked with the Smithsonian, I got to see the bones up close and the exhibits behind the scenes there.

– Craig Mello

Celeste Ng

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

– Celeste Ng

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