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A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.
— Richard Fortey
It is not necessary to be large to be a perfectly good arthropod (or mollusc, come to that).
— Richard Fortey
A team is better 'cos your aptitude is multiplied in your members
— Ikechukwu Joseph
Whatever betterment we have today was carved out of a world of stone by men of the hammer, not men of hope.
— Dagobert D. Runes
There are more balls in twenty feet of street here then there are in all of Dublin, and I'm proud to be swaying in the nut sack.
— Karen Marie Moning
I confess that the idea of taking off one's boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had its funny side.
— Richard Fortey
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
— Richard Schickel
The great museums may harbour the conscience for the natural world, not merely provide its catalogue.
— Richard Fortey
It [terrorism] happened because intelligence, leadership and police failures made it possible.
— Ashraf Ghani
To an outsider, I just seem like a list of accomplishments. To me, all there is is how often I fail.
— Junot Diaz
You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.
— Richard Fortey
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.
— Richard Fortey
In this world some people will always throw stones in your path. It depends on you what you make from them... a wall or a bridge.
— John Reyes
George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.
— Robert Dallek
When I go home my mother still makes me take out the garbage.
— Nomar Garciaparra
Nothing is more practical than a good theory.
— Kurt Lewin