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“A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.” quote by Richard Fortey — Download Open image

“A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.”

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“Every new discovery about the genome is consistent with evolution having happened. Whether we find it appealing or not is another question, but personally…

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“Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the absence of this kind of extinction new developments would not prosper. In our own history, periods when ideas have been perpetuated by dogma, preventing the replacement of old by new ideas, have also been times of stultifying stagnation.…

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“But, for now, I retreated back down the little hidden staircase into the familiar world of the basement of the Natural History Museum, and…

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The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent…

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“Whether we find it appealing or not is another question, but personally I like being fourth cousin to a mushroom and having a bonobo…

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

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I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the…

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“Mankind is nothing more than a parasitic tick gorging himself on temporary plenty while the seas are low and the climate is clement. But…

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“I attempted in vain to calculate the size of the holdings on the shelves, floor on floor, only to boggle hopelessly, baffled by bibliographic…

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I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic Park and see dinosaurs reawakened more graphically than any museum could emulate, maybe a museum should be the place to have an encounter with the bony truth. Maybe some children have overdosed on simulations on…

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“When I meet some of my commuting acquaintances on the 6.21 home to Henley-on-Thames they occasionally enquire what I have done that day. I have been known to reply: ‘I moved Africa 600 kilometres to the south.’ They usually turn quickly to the soccer page. One”

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“Trilobites survived for a total of three hundred million years, almost the whole duration of the Palaeozoic era: who are we johnny-come-latelies to label…

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Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.

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Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection!

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MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations—from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit that the…

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I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamberpots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only…

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Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to…

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This is an extraordinary illustrated collection of Chinese herbsaccompanied by concise and expert comments. Jing-Nuan Wu has succeeded incompiling this most unique and informative…

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I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it…

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By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary.

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Who wrote the Bible? Current scholarship, to my knowledge, assumes that the material that constitutes the Old Testament was put together from various oral…

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I've had plenty of jo-jobs. Nothing I'd call a career. Let me put it this way. I have an extensive collection of name tags…

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The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war…

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Museums do not share their collections with other museums unless they get something in exchange. The Metropolitan will deal with the Louvre, but will…

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