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Mary Leakey Quotes

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
Mary Leakey

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
Mary Leakey

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

I never felt interpretation was my job.
Mary Leakey

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.
Mary Leakey

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


Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.
Mary Leakey

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

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


Related Authors
Alfred Russel Wallace, Gregory Bateson, Louis Leakey, Arthur Eddington, Mary Douglas, Paul Nurse, Thomas Browne, John B. S. Haldane, Sydney Brenner
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Biography
Type: Scientist
Nationality: British
Born: February 6, 1913
Died: December 9, 1996


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