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Jack Horner [1946-0] American

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Scientist, Paleontologist

John R. "Jack" Horner is a non-degree holding American paleontologist who discovered and named Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their young. He is one of the best-known paleontologists in the World.

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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.		101
I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.		102
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.		103
Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.		104
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.		105
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.		106
Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.		107
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.		108
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.		109
I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.		110
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.		111
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.		112
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.		113
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.	Famous	114
I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.		115
I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.		116
Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.		117
Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.		118
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.		119
The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.		120
'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.		121
Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.		122
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'		123
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.		124
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.		125
Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.		126
Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.		201
A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.		202
T Rex could not run.		203
Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.		204
Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.		205
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.		206
Historical science is being left in the dust.		207

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