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21 " Too often, the people who write captions to photographs indulge their own uninformed fantasies about the pictures and what they mean. "
― Michael Crichton , Dragon Teeth
22 " Nothing is obvious. "
23 " After all, the trouble with what the scientists said was that they were always saying something different. This year one idea, next year something else. Scientific opinion was ever changing, "
24 " The Indians think these fossils are the bones of serpents, which is to say reptiles. We think they were reptiles, too. They think these creatures were gigantic. So do we. They think these gigantic reptiles lived in the distant past. So do we. They think the Great Spirit killed them. We say we don’t know why they disappeared—but since we offer no explanation of our own, how can we be sure theirs is superstition? "
25 " I’m not who I used to be, he thought. "
26 " He’s going to contact his fellow red men,” Isaac muttered, “and tell them where to find some nice white scalps. "