Louis Leakey Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“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!”

“Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.”

“The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.”

“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.”

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

“Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.”

“The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.”

“The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.”