The Monster's Bones Quotes

“Those who could stand his bluster would have to pass a test he called “trials by fish,” in which he left students in a room with decomposing specimens and told them to make close observations of the minute stages of decay. “In six weeks you will either become utterly weary of the task, or . . . be so completely fascinated . . . as to wish to devote your whole life to the pursuit of our science,” he wrote.”
― David K. Randall, The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

“(He once paid a jailer for the severed head of a Black prisoner who had died in custody and, while carrying it in a bag back to his laboratory, slipped on some ice; the head went tumbling down a snowy hill and into the open door of a cottage, where Owen raced inside and grabbed it without stopping to calm the terrified people who lived inside.”
― David K. Randall, The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

“Nature has a habit of placing some of her most attractive treasures in places where it is difficult to locate and obtain them. —CHARLES DOOLITTLE WALCOTT,
FOURTH SECRETARY OF
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION”
― David K. Randall, The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World