Quotes from 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.

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.

The greatest problem we face is the growing number of people living in poverty. The related sense of hopelessness has to be impacting on every part of environmental management.

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.