Quotes by Mary Leakey - Page 1

I never felt interpretation was my job.
Mary Leakey / Archaeologist
Jobs
Felt
Interpretation
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I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.
Mary Leakey / Archaeologist
House
Tents
Tent
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Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
Mary Leakey / Archaeologist
Compelled
Curiosity
Basically
Been
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Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.
Mary Leakey / Archaeologist
Data
Fundamentals
Theory
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The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
Mary Leakey / Archaeologist
Drawing
Stones
Tools
Earned
Stone
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I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
Mary Leakey / Archaeologist
Curious
Draw
Dug
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I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
Mary Leakey / Archaeologist
Exam
Funny Exam
School
Clearly
Passed
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Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.
Mary Leakey / Archaeologist
Data
Come And Go
Fundamental
Remain
Theories
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You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
Mary Leakey / Archaeologist
Truth
Really
Looking
Only
Find
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No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
Mary Leakey / Archaeologist
Amount
Information
Stones
Yield
Bone
Freely
Gave
Paintings
Stone
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I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.
Mary Leakey / Archaeologist
Bush
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I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist.
Mary Leakey / Archaeologist
Allowing
Having A Baby
Intention
Motherhood
Liked
Disrupt
No Intention
Strongly
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She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.
Mary Leakey / Archaeologist
Turns
Glance
Intensely
Stops
Motion
North
Transcends
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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.
Mary Leakey / Archaeologist
Depressing
Mean
Migration
Years
Avoid
Me See I Can
Once A Year
Ruin
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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
Mary Leakey / Archaeologist
Science
Arrows
Yield
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