Diaries Quote by Ken Burns

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.

— Zahi Hawass

These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a Palaeontologist. But in committing…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost,…

— Sarah Parcak

I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“There is no final truth in palaeontology. Every new observer brings something of his or her own: a new technique, a new intelligence, even…

— Richard Fortey

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a…

— Steffi Graf

The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can see the…

— Richard Leakey

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet…

— Terence McKenna

So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of…

— Amy Tan

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation…

— Jean M. Auel

I think it's always been very natural. I don't write a diary - it's reflections and thoughts and feelings that come to me at…

— Anna Ternheim

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

— Subhash Kak