20 Quotes by Mary Leakey

I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

I think it's the most important find in view of human evolution. I was really looking for tools, but we never found any at the site.

Once she summed up her carrer simply: 'I dug things up. I was curious. And then I liked to draw what i found

I never felt interpretation was my job.

There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remains.