Mary Leakey Quotes

• Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.

  Mary Leakey

  Data, Fundamentals, Theory

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• No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

  Mary Leakey

  Yield, Stones, Information

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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

  Science, Arrows, Yield

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• I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

  Mary Leakey

  House, Tents

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• I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

  Mary Leakey

  School, Exam, Funny Exam

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• I never felt interpretation was my job.

  Mary Leakey

  Jobs, Interpretation, Felt

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• The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

  Mary Leakey

  Drawing, Tools, Stones

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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

  Depressing, Mean, Years

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