Cameras Quote by Werner Herzog

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa,…

— Richard Leakey

That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium…

— Charles Lyell

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis.…

— Louise Leakey

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is…

— Richard Leakey

You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up…

— Griffin Jay

When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and…

— Louise Leakey

Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at…

— John Hench

My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some…

— Jack Horner

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology…

— Donald Johanson

But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go…

— Donald Johanson

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

— Pierre Loti

The second thing that happened is, DNA analysis is much more sophisticated. All you have to do now is spit in a test tube…

— Henry Louis Gates