American - Scientist | June 15, 1946 -
Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
Jack Horner
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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.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
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Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
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