Archaeology Quotes
38 quotes by 37 authors
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Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.
— Mortimer Wheeler
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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
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In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
— Thomas R. Pickering
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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
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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
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On the whole … archaeological work has unquestionably strengthened confidence in the reliability of the Scriptural record. More than one archaeologist has found his respect…
— Millar Burrows
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.
— Joan D. Vinge
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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
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As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.
— Michael Ondaatje
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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
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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
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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
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American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.
— Anthony F. C. Wallace
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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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