Louis Leakey Quotes
29 Louis Leakey quotes:
"Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it."
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"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."
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"Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya."
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"During our first night in the new camp a number of lions came round to investigate. The lions contented themselves by roaring at us."
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"Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums."
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"Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing."
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"I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England."
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"I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks."
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"I held a research fellowship at St. John's College, Cambridge, and had been allowed to retain my rooms there while I was away in Africa."
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"I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene."
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"I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!"
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"I withdrew my support for the validity of the evidence for early Pleistocene Stone Age tools in Europe on the grounds of not proven."
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"Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price."
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"Our water hole at the camp was little more than a liquid, muddy swamp, in which a rhino wallowed daily and added urine to the puddle."
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"Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult."
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"Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America."
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"South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century."
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"The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done."
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"The crocodile was laid stomach upwards to be cut open. The stomach contents included bracelets, beads, necklaces, and indications of human meals."
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"The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics."
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