Matthew Osborn

Introduction
In studying the physical world and its phenomena, scientists pursue knowledge about general truths or the operations of fundamental laws. No science is ever a fixed body of knowledge. Scientists conduct experiments and make careful observations in an ongoing process of searching for new information. In a letter to physicist Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton paid tribute to the scientists who preceded him: “If I have seen further than you it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
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(1905–2001). As a professor at Columbia University and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, U.S. vertebrate paleontologist Edwin Colbert shaped the study of dinosaurs and evolution in the middle decades of the 20th century. He found thousands of fossils, discovering at least 50 new species and at least ten new genera. In addition to the hundreds of scientific papers he published, Colbert wrote dozens of books and articles for children ...