"The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that’s old people’s hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that’s what you’ve got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else."

“Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the museum were perfectly satisfied with the narrative they were constructing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence...faith.”

“The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment.”

Source : "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

“[In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the life of a household by careful scrutiny of the persons and material arriving or leaving the house; we keep accurate records of the foods and commodities left at the door and patiently examine the contents of the dust-bin and endeavour to deduce from such data the events occurring within the closed doors.”

Source : Marjory Stephenson (1939). “Bacterial metabolism”

“One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.”

“The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.”

Source : Charles Thomas Newton (2010). “Essays on Art and Archaeology”, p.3, Cambridge University Press

“We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant.”

“I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.”