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Richard Leakey

"A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge."

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"A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge."

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Amber Hurdle

"Getting an education is not only a matter of checking the boxes as your life progresses, it is a gift which can enrich every aspect of your world."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you are still breathing, don not stop learning."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."

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Amber Hurdle

"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."

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Amber Hurdle

"All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."

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Amber Hurdle

"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."

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Amber Hurdle

"I who know many present things by my art," replied the Hermit with a smile, "have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age."

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Amber Hurdle

"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."

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Amber Hurdle

"Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know."

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Richard Leakey
"The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants."

People

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Richard Leakey
"Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago."

Years

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Richard Leakey
"To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils."

History

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Richard Leakey
"For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment."

Life

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Richard Leakey
"One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult."

Forget

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Richard Leakey
"Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance."

Anarchy

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Richard Leakey
"We are concerned that, in a few years time, this place of discovery, with its wealth of human fossils, the like of which can be found nowhere else in the world, could be completely destroyed."

Time

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Richard Leakey
"We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers."

Men

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Richard Leakey
"Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants."

Now

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Richard Leakey
"Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place."

African

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