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Jack Horner
American
Scientist
Born:
Jun 15
,
1946
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs
Like
People
Science
You
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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.
Jack Horner
Future
People
Opportunity
Cause
Past
Engineering
Thinking
Once
Some
About
Noble
Noble Cause
Heading
Genetic
New
Genetic Engineering
Deal
Understand
Get
Diseases
Human
Where
Interested
Race
Create
Should
Help
Human Race
Now
Right
Start
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
First
Bone
Montana
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs
Since
Been
Up
Interested
Then
Growing
Growing Up
Found
Ever
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
Jack Horner
Character
Worse
Out
Dinosaur
Like
Without
Context
Than
Story
Amnesia
Suffers
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.
Jack Horner
You
First
Finding
Dinosaur
Rush
Lay
Know
First-Person
Years
Years Ago
Person
Hands
Hands-On
Lived
Incomparable
Million
Million Years
Bones
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.
Jack Horner
Good
Man
Father
Enough
Montana
Ranch
Out
Dinosaur
Seeing
Some
Pretty
Pretty Good
Horse
Had
He
Remembered
Sticking
Prairie
Geologist
Were
His
Owned
Being
Sand
Younger
Across
Notion
Ground
Large
Riding
Gravel
Bones
A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
Jack Horner
Time
Year
Few
Months
Takes
Up
Chicken
Than
Little
Less
Less Time
Whole
Grows
Ostrich
Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
Jack Horner
Change
Evolution
Evolutionary
Does
Quickly
Happen
Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.
Jack Horner
Else
Rules
Someone
Making
Scientists
Discoveries
Much
Who
Play
Chance
Triceratops is very common: they are the cows of the Cretaceous; they are everywhere.
Jack Horner
Everywhere
Very
Cows
Common
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.
Jack Horner
You
People
Feeling
Would
Restaurant
About
Pointing
Talk
Disconcerting
Odd
Go
Very
Just
Famous
Want
Anyone
Cannot
Whisper
Really
Why
Imagine
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.
Jack Horner
Down
Birds
Our
Sides
Out
Dinosaurs
Lay
Could
Throw
Like
Built
Up
Mammals
Squat
Get
Just
Legs
Cannot
Either
A lot of Montanans are teed off that local finds usually end up in New York.
Jack Horner
Local
Finds
New
Lot
Off
End
Up
York
New York
'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.
Jack Horner
Science
Would
Would-Be
Park
Wrong
Documentary
Lot
Accurate
Jurassic
Jurassic Park
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.
Jack Horner
You
Our
Ancestors
Those
Characteristics
Ancient
Out
Carry
Could
Genes
Come
How
Turn
Turned
Us
Used
Figure
Actually
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
Jack Horner
Enough
Dinosaurs
Determine
Variation
Had
Had Enough
Within
How
How Much
Unfortunately
Much
Species
I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
Jack Horner
Living
Biology
Out
Dinosaurs
Like
Were
Trying
Figure
Creatures
Living Creatures
I encourage people who don't believe in evolution to look for horses in Jurassic Solenhofen limestone.
Jack Horner
People
Believe
Evolution
Horses
Look
Encourage
Jurassic
Who
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Jack Horner
You
Argument
Tell
Dinosaurs
Give
Tails
Talk
Get
Children
Them
Drag
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.
Jack Horner
Control
Bone
Once
Spinal
Give
Potential
Genes
Also
Understand
How
Chickens
Just
Regeneration
Might
Us
Cord
Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
Jack Horner
Religion
Science
Machines
Sewing
More
Like
Oranges
Comparing
Apples
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
Jack Horner
Future
See
More
Like
Quantitative
Lot
Get
Whole
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