Archaeology Quotes

38 quotes by 37 authors

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta. — Mortimer Wheeler
Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall.… — Jeffrey Boam
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. — Thomas R. Pickering
Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline… — C W Ceram
The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number… — David George Hogarth
On the whole â€¦ archaeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the Scriptural record. More than one archaeologist has found his respect… — Millar Burrows
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and Arabia to the… — Edith Hall
I sometimes feel that I am trying to dig in the world around me. I'm involved in another kind of archaeology to look for another… — Simon McBurney
The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view… — Margaret Murray
It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve… — Zahi Hawass
Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the… — Augustus Pitt Rivers
Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to… — Jim Bishop
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge
Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using… — Jean M. Auel
As a writer, one is busy with archaeology. — Michael Ondaatje
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the… — Igor Stravinsky
I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than… — Edward Sapir
I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese… — Lou Gerstner
American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place. — Anthony F. C. Wallace
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 very recent past. — Penelope Lively

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