Jack Horner

“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.”

“I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.”

“'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.”

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

“Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.”

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

“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.”

“A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.”

“Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.”

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

“Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.”

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

“The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.”

“I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.”

“I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.”

“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.”

“Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.”

“Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.”

“Historical science is being left in the dust.”

“In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.”