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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
- Jack Horner
#Animal
#Anything
#Dinosaurs
#Name
#Own
I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.
- Jack Horner
#Believe
#Evolution
#Look
#People
#Who
Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
- Jack Horner
#Dinosaurs
#Life
#Replace
#Teeth
#Year
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
- Jack Horner
#Almost
#Because
#Dinosaurs
#Park
#Say
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
#Early
#Field
#Fortunate
#Made
#Social
Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
- Jack Horner
#Chance
#Play
#Rules
#Someone
#Who
The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
- Jack Horner
#Complete
#Incredible
#Record
#Things
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.
- Jack Horner
#Because
#Birds
#Colorful
#Dinosaurs
#See
Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
- Jack Horner
#Common
#Cows
#Everywhere
#Very
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
#Father
#Good
#Man
#Riding
#Sand
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.
- Jack Horner
#Chickens
#Control
#Potential
#Understand
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
- Jack Horner
#Future
#Like
#More
#Quantitative
#See
Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
- Jack Horner
#Like
#Machines
#More
#Religion
#Science
I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
- Jack Horner
#Biology
#Creatures
#Like
#Living
#Trying
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
#New
#Opportunity
#Past
#Thinking
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