Top 23 Quotes by Louis Leakey

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!

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

The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.

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

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.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.