British - Scientist | February 6, 1913 - December 9, 1996
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
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I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.
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Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.
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The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
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Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
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You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.
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I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
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I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
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I never felt interpretation was my job.
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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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Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.
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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.
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