60 Quotes by Richard Leakey

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 changes. Unfortunately, there will always be gaps in our knowledge, but there is no doubt that we and everything living today has evolved.

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

It’s the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause.

The world’s five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.

I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it’s their right. What I fear is that this minority may seem to be larger than it truly is. What is strange is that there are still people who believe the world is not a globe.

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn’t like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.