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Donald Johanson

"And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask."

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"And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask."

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"I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about."

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"The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries."

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"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."

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"The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept."

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"If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience."

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"I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last."

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"I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere."

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"As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee."

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"Good questions outrank easy answers."

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"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers."

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"I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction."
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"When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins."
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"I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution."
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"As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating, digging up remains of ancient Indian villages in the Midwest and in the Southwest."
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"This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists."
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"I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it."
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"But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor."
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"Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong."
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"My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago."
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