We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Jack Horner Quotes. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
Evolution – evolutionary change – does not happen quickly.
I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I’ve been interested in dinosaurs.
Historical science is being left in the dust.
Scientists who play by someone else’s rules don’t have much chance of making discoveries.
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
‘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.
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.
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of ‘Jurassic Park.’
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.
Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
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.
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn’t drag their tails, and you get arguments.
I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven’t had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
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.
I encourage people who don’t believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.
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.
Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
Comparing science and religion isn’t like comparing apples and oranges – it’s more like apples and sewing machines.
Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
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.
Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
T Rex could not run.
I’m trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
