Mary Leakey

“But in the end, it is the rock that has the last word.”

“I had been taught to look for patterns in the stones, to see the history of the earth in the layers of rock.”

“For me it was the thrill of the chase, the discovery, that was the driving force.”

“I have been driven by the desire to know what it is that makes us human.”

“I have never felt that fossils are necessarily the sole key to evolution.”

“The chief function of the museum has been to serve as a sort of peep show which gratifies the vanity of the rich.”

“It is the quality of the evidence, not the quantity, that is important.”

“What is important is the quality of the evidence. It’s not how much you find, but what you find.”