Mary Leakey

Scientist

1913-02-06

Quotes by Mary Leakey

• 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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• 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.

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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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