Richard Fortey Quotes

A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.

You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.

I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.

It is not necessary to be large to be a perfectly good arthropod (or mollusc, come to that).