Jack Horner Professions : Paleontologist Born : June 15, 1946 Browse All Authors Top 31 quotes by Jack Horner A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. Jack Horner suffering stories character 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. Jack Horner growing-up dream two 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. Jack Horner motivation inspiration mean Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines. Jack Horner orange apples machines 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 society persons lifetime I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs. Jack Horner montana dinosaurs growing-up Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.' Jack Horner jurassic-park dinosaurs parks Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs. Jack Horner urges dinosaurs children 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. Jack Horner broken wind country Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species. Jack Horner variation had-enough dinosaurs I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures. Jack Horner biology dinosaurs trying Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year. Jack Horner dinosaurs teeth years 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. Jack Horner future opportunity people thinking Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons. Jack Horner looking dinosaurs beautiful people 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. Jack Horner person know you hands 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. Jack Horner good man riding father A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months. Jack Horner chicken year up time Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly. Jack Horner does happen evolution change 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. Jack Horner some early dinosaurs years Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries. Jack Horner rules someone chance play Similar Authors David M. Raup paleontologist Neil Shubin paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould paleontologist Robert T. Bakker paleontologist All Authors
