Jack Horner Quotes

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• The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who…
• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
• 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 way.
• In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.
• Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
• Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
• Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
• Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
• I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
• I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
• Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
• Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
• I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs to…
• 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…
• Historical science is being left in the dust.
• Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
• My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large…
• Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
• 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…
• Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out…

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