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Richard Leakey has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.
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Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was…
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It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause
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In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or…
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Climate change: We have never faced a more critical time on our planet
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It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at…
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It occurred to me that if I did not handle the crash correctly, there would be no survivors.
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For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These…
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Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with.…
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The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
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Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated…
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Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in…
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I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot…
— Matthew Scully
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The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
— D. A. Carson
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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget…
— Knute Nelson
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You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong.
— Knute Nelson
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To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the…
— Richard Leakey
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Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Heights of human arrogance....it will finally die of civilization... razing the earth.
— Fiza Elahi
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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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