Amnesia Quote by Jack Horner

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

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

Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

— Jack Horner

Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.

— Jack Horner

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

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

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

I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.

— Jack Horner

Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

— Jack Horner

T Rex could not run.

— Jack Horner

I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.

— Jack Horner

In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

— Jack Horner