quotes about Archaeology
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I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.
-- Catherine Fisher -
The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number of hypotheses, but rarely, if ever, scientifically prove.
-- David George Hogarth -
Archaeology is not a science, it's a vendetta.
-- Mortimer Wheeler -
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
-- Thomas R. Pickering -
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I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology
-- Zbigniew HerbertSource : Zbigniew Herbert, John Carpenter, Bogdana Carpenter (1985). “Raport z oblezonego miasta i inne wiersze”, Ecco Pr
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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.
-- Frank Moore CrossSource : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
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We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.
-- Michael Rostovtzeff -
I'm not a believer in the future. The most interesting things are always behind us. I look at everything as archaeology.
-- Robert Polidori -
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History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.
-- Doug ScottSource : "Organized hunts for Civil War relics raise dust between participants, historians" by Brigid Schulte, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2006.
