Prehistory Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But in committing them… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no name, that connects… — Andrzej Stasiuk
We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have… — Enrique Lihn
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century. — Louis Leakey
The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits… — Louis Leakey
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest… — Weston La Barre
The earliest religious texts in the West ascribe to humankind both a prehistory and a destiny among the gods. M. David Litwa presents a striking… — Terryl L. Givens
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
Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in… — Alice Miller
In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves. — H.G. Wells
The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows… — Andrew Marr
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Naturalistic art, as we know it, is an art which imitates the appearance of things, not as they are in reality, but as they appear… — Sigfried Giedion
Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms… — Christopher Hitchens
I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in… — Donald Johanson
If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of… — John G. D. Clark
My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11,… — David Remnick
Brandon McCaw says the archaeology of the stone monument is complex because overa period of more a 1,000 years of prehistory a huge amount of… — Brandon McCaw

Who Wrote These Prehistory Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 18 Prehistory Quotes as follows: