Top 37 Quotes & Sayings by Jack Horner
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Last updated on December 24, 2024.
T Rex could not run.
The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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 have been extremely social.
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.
I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
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.
Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.
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.
Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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.
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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.
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.
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 bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.
There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago.
Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
'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.
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
Historical science is being left in the dust.
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.
When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur and so that's what I've been striving for all of my life.
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 depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.
In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.
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