Jack Horner Quotes
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
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Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
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T Rex could not run.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors.
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
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A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
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I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.