Archaeology Quotes · Page 2

I'd always been fascinated by archaeology; it was my original career plan as a kid.

— Tana French

I was about 40 when I got a glimmer of the wonders archaeology can offer, and I want kids to be able…

— Tony Robinson

I'm not an historian but I can get interested-obsessively interested-with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the…

— Penelope Lively

Those who brush off the Biblical accounts as "ancient fiction" and "legends" only reveal their ignorance of these archaeological discoveries.

— Charlie Campbell

Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and…

— Barbara Holland

Every child thinks archaeology is about digging up land to find dinosaur remains and gold. I had the same intentions.

— Bhuvan Bam

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

— Charles Thomas Newton

I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.

— Robert Polidori

In a simple direct sense, archaeology is a science that must be lived, must be "seasoned with humanity." Dead archaeology is the…

— Mortimer Wheeler

“Water has its own archaeology, not a layering but a leveling, and thus is truer to our sense of the past, because…

— Ron Rash

I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I…

— Sloane Crosley

There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to…

— Paul Di Filippo

If my career doesn't work out as a violinist, I want to become an archaeologist. I've read about paleontology, too - that's…

— Hilary Hahn

I teach myself archaeology, I teach myself Spanish, and that's because it can be fun, it can be useful. So I keep…

— Philippe Falardeau

Archaeologists gave the military the idea to use aerial photographs for spying and field survey. We are fortunate that the spatial and…

— Sarah Parcak

I'm not an academic; I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a writer, communicating ideas to the public. There is a model of how…

— Graham Hancock

“In view of the years of careful study that have been devoted to Stonehenge it may seem unlikely that any more information…

— Richard Brinckerhoff

Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and…

— Edith Hall

“The likelihood that computer algorithms will displace archaeologists by 2033 is only 0.7 per cent, because their job requires highly sophisticated types…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually…

— Igor Stravinsky

If all the evidence is weighed carefully and fairly, it is indeed justifiable, according to the canons of historical research, to conclude…

— Paul L. Maier

“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great…

— Austen Henry Layard

“See,' said (Liberty Hyde) Bailey, 'how the leaves of this small plant stand forth extended to bathe themselves in the light. ...…

— Russell Lord

Archaeology is a science, and like all sciences, has its limitations. For one, archaeological discoveries made in the past centuries have been…

— Randall Price

“To become aware of what is constant in the flux of nature and life is the first step in abstract thinking. The…

— Hellmut and Richard Welhelm

I can't see much purpose in archaeology unless you can find out the narrative about that place, or even realise that nobody…

— Tony Robinson

American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.

— Anthony F. C. Wallace

“[...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the large number of well-joined fractures found…

— James Henry Breasted

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they…

— Jim Bishop

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

— Michel Foucault

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

— Joan D. Vinge

I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want…

— Anonymous

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the…

— Catherine Fisher

It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are…

— Zahi Hawass

There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.

— William F. Albright

“Some of the projects in the archaeology and historic preservation program resemble our vision of”

— Wooldridge, Jane

“Archaeology profs aren't supernatural minions of a vengeful goddess," Patricia pointed out. "Want to bet?”

— Allyson James

“He was not trained in conservation - he was, after all, no more than an archaeologist - a digger!”

— Penelope Fitzgerald

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of…

— Edward Sapir

I'd love to do something like put a piece of moon rock on Mars and a piece of Mars on the moon,…

— Cornelia Parker