Fundamental Quotes by Mary Leakey

I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai…

— Mary Leakey

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

— Mary Leakey

I never felt interpretation was my job.

— Mary Leakey

Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

— Mary Leakey

You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

— Mary Leakey

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.

— Mary Leakey

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.

— Mary Leakey

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

— Mary Leakey

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

— Mary Leakey

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

— Mary Leakey

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

— 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…

— Mary Leakey

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

— Mary Leakey

There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body…

— Mary Leakey

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

— Mary Leakey