Top 23 Quotes by Louis Leakey

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.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

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.

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

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.