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Mary Leakey
British
Scientist
About the author
I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
Mary Leakey,
British
Scientist
#School
The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
Mary Leakey,
British
Scientist
#First
#Money
#Tools
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.
Mary Leakey,
British
Scientist
#Time
Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.
Mary Leakey,
British
Scientist
#Now
No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
Mary Leakey,
British
Scientist
#Information
#Yield
I never felt interpretation was my job.
Mary Leakey,
British
Scientist
#Job
I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
Mary Leakey,
British
Scientist
Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
Mary Leakey,
British
Scientist
#Curiosity
I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.
Mary Leakey,
British
Scientist