Top 23 Quotes by Louis Leakey

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.

The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.

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

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

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

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.

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

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

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.