60 Quotes by Richard Leakey

For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa.

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

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers.

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed.