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Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

Mary Leakey

Curiosity

I never felt interpretation was my job.

Mary Leakey

Job

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

Mary Leakey

Information

Yield

Now this really is something to put on the mantelpiece.

Mary Leakey

Now

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

Time

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

Mary Leakey

School