"As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to……" — Donald Johanson
"As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest."
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27 Quotes by Donald Johanson
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I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be…
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Most Achievers I Know Are People Who Have Made A Strong And Deep Dedication to Pursuing A Particular Goal. That…
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And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In…
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My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in…
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Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
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Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in…
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In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from…
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But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years.…
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Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or…
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Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a…
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One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total…
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When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our…
— Margaret Atwood
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the…
— Saint Augustine
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Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,…
— Diane Ackerman
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
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The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships,…
— Andrew Bernstein
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To…
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My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted…
— Annie Besant
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
— Ambrose Bierce
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