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

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.

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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.

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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.

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Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

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

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

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

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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.

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Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

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