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- I have everything now I had 20 years ago except now, it's all lower.
- Gypsy Rose Lee (1914 - 1970)
- Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
- Things that don't quite make sense can be our most valuable tools.
- David Wilson, Director, the Museum of Jurassic Technology
- If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry?
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), Newsweek, 01-02-06
- We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.
- John Lehman (1942 - )
- 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.
- Jim Bishop
- As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.
- Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984)
- The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the void by making use of preconceived theories...Archaeology, then, does not supply us with certitudes, but rather with vague hypotheses. And in the shade of these hypotheses some artists are content to dream, considering them less as scientific facts than as sources of inspiration.
- Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971), Poetics of Music in the Form - Six Lessons
- Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall.
- George Lucas (1944 - ), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989
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