Mary Leakey famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
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I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing.
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There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely
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The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
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I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
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Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.
-- Mary Leakey
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The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
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In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
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You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.
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When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.
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I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.
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Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.
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There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
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Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.
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The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.
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An espionage organization is a collector: it collects raw information. That gets processed by a machinery that is supposed to resolve its reliability, and to present a finished product.
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