Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.' — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
'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. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
The chicken is a dinosaur. I mean, it really is. You can't argue with it, because we're the classifiers and we've classified it that… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
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… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
