Top 14 Quotes by Mary Leakey

Theories come and go, but fundamental data always remain the same.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

I go once a year to the Serengeti to see the wildebeest migrations because that means a lot to me, but I avoid Olduvai if I can because it is a ruin. It is most depressing.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

You only find what you are looking for, really, if the truth be known.

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.