Top 23 Quotes by Louis Leakey

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!