“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“What is it that really makes us, us? It’s our collective intelligence. It’s our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.”
— Louise Leakey
Louise Leakey digs for humanity's origins
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“If you want to become a fossil, you need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the Earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. And then you hope that one of us [paleontologists] will walk around and find small pieces of you.”
— Louise Leakey
Louise Leakey digs for humanity's origins
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