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" 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. "

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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

Dinosaurs

Enough

Much

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Jack Horner

Living

Dinosaurs

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

" T Rex could not run. "

Jack Horner

Run

Could

" A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months. "

" There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago. "

" 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. "

" Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs. "

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

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

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

Jack Horner

Science

Sewing

" Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly. "

" I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes. "

" Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons. "

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

" 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

Growing Up

" 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. "

" Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds. "

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

" Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal. "