1.
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
Jack Horner
2.
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
3.
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
4.
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
5.
Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
Jack Horner
6.
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
7.
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
Jack Horner
8.
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
Jack Horner
9.
Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
Jack Horner
10.
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
11.
Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
Jack Horner
12.
I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
Jack Horner