Mark Norell (1957) American paleontologist
As quoted in American Museum of Natural History "Velociraptor had feathers" ScienceDaily (September 20, 2007)
“Dinosaurs Acting Like Birds, and Vice Versa – An Homage to the Reverend Edward Hitchcock, First Director of the Massachusetts Geological Survey” in Feathered Dragons. Currie, P.; Koppelhus, E.; Shugar, M.; Wright J. eds. 2004. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 1-11.
Mark Norell (1957) American paleontologist
As quoted in American Museum of Natural History "Velociraptor had feathers" ScienceDaily (September 20, 2007)
“I am often asked if I would have liked to have been involved with Jurassic Park.”
Ray Harryhausen (1920–2013) American animator
The plain answer is no. Although excellent, it is not with all its dollars what I would have wished to do with my career. I was always a loner and worked best that way. Since the very beginning I fought and struggled under constant pressure to keep the design and final result within my hands. As time moved on this became more difficult, until I was forced to bow to the fact that my method of working, in the financial sense, was no longer practical. Model animation has been relegated to a reflection, or a starting point for creature computer effects that has reached a high few could have anticipated. However, for all the wonderful achievements of the computer, the process creates creatures that are too realistic and for me that makes them unreal because they have lost one vital element - a dream quality. Fantasy, for me, is realizing strange beings that are so removed from the 21st century. These beings would include not only dinosaurs, because no matter what the scientists say, we still don't know how dinosaurs looked or moved, but also creatures of the mind. Fantastical creatures where the unreal quality becomes even more vital. Stop-motion supplies the perfect breath of life for them, offering a look of pure fantasy because their movements are beyond anything we know.
Source: An Animated Life (2003), p. 8
Leslie Lamport (1941) American computer scientist
Email of 28 May 1987 https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/distributed-system.txt
As quoted in [Teresa K. Attwood, Stephen R. Pettifer, David Thorne, Bioinformatics Challenges at the Interface of Biology and Computer Science: Mind the Gap, https://books.google.com/books?id=_i-8DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA266, 26 September 2016, John Wiley & Sons, 978-0-470-03548-1, 266–]
Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Source: Are you being brainwashed?: Propaganda in science textbooks (2007), p. 20
“The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.”
Carl Sagan book Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
"Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" (1992) (co-written with Ann Druyan)
Context: Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.
Ray Harryhausen (1920–2013) American animator
Ray Harryhausen & Tony Dalton (2003), An Animated Life, Aurum Press, p. 8
Alfre Woodard (1952) American film, stage, and television actress
On how mothers are typically portrayed in “Alfre Woodard Redefines Black Motherhood On Screen In ‘Juanita’” https://shadowandact.com/alfre-woodard-redefines-black-motherhood-on-screen-in-juanita in Shadow and Act (2019 Mar 11)
André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old