Jack Horner Quotes

• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  Jack Horner

  Character, Suffering, Stories

  "Biography/Personal Quotes" by Brian Switek, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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• 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

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• 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

  Dream, Growing Up, Two

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• 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, Lifetime, Persons

  1993 On the 80-year period from Darwin's Origin of Species to the first nuclear bomb. In Time, 26 Apr.

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• Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.

  Jack Horner

  Apples, Orange, Machines

  The Wired Interview, www.wired.com. February 23, 2009.

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• Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.

  Jack Horner

  Years, Teeth, Dinosaurs

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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.

  Jack Horner

  Growing Up, Montana, Dinosaurs

  "Jack Horner knows his dinosaurs" by Peggy Mihelich, www.cnn.com. March 8, 2007.

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• Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

  Jack Horner

  Jurassic Park, Dinosaurs, Parks

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• 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

  Country, Wind, Broken

  Jack Horner, James Gorman (2009). “How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution”, p.37, Penguin

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• Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

  Jack Horner

  Variation, Dinosaurs, Had Enough

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• Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

  Jack Horner

  Children, Dinosaurs, Urges

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• I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

  Jack Horner

  Trying, Dinosaurs, Biology

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