Archaeology Quotes

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The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Archaeology is not only the hand maid of history, it is also the conservator of art.

I'm not a historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.

American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place.

History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.

I teach myself archaeology, I teach myself Spanish, and that's because it can be fun, it can be useful. So I keep studying. I read books because I still want to study. I don't want to stop.

Archaeology is the only branch of Anthropology where we kill our informants in the process of studying them.

Archaeology is the study of humanity itself, and unless that attitude towards the subject is kept in mind archaeology will be overwhelmed by impossible theories or a welter of flint chips.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible, but it may illuminate it.

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.

The subject-matter of Archaeology is threefold-the Oral, the Written and the Monumental.

I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.

It's interesting to see that people had so much clutter even thousands of years ago. The only way to get rid of it all was to bury it, and then some archaeologist went and dug it all up.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

I've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school.

Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents.

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.

If I ever write a book on "How True Is the Bible?" I'll have to start out by saying that archaeology is not the way to find out; that it has very little to say.

Some sinister secret lay buried in the heart of the graveyard!

Archaeology digs the Bible’s grave.

Elizabeth sank into the leather wing chair in the library of her mind and began to read.

Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !

Petra is a brilliant display of man's artistry in turning barren rock into a majestic wonder.

Where can one buy a lit of that *Right Stuff* bravado required to shrug off the fact that your airplane is now a convertible?

I'm not reinventing myself. I'm finding myself. There's a difference!

If you find that you're going through hell, keep moving. You will get to the end eventually.

Archaeological discoveries made in Egypt and in the Near East in the past hundred years have opened our eyes to a spiritual and cultural heritage undreamed of by earlier generations.

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