Animals Quotes by Louis Leakey

As a social anthropologist, I naturally accept and even stress the fact that there are major differences, both mental and psychological, which separate the…

— Louis Leakey

People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have…

— Louis Leakey

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

— Louis Leakey

I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment…

— Louis Leakey

The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.

— Louis Leakey

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

— Louis Leakey

Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.

— Louis Leakey

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

— Louis Leakey

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

— Louis Leakey

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa…

— Louis Leakey

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodiles neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in…

— Louis Leakey

Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.

— Louis Leakey

Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.

— Louis Leakey

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

— Louis Leakey

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

— Louis Leakey