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

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

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

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

Richard Fortey quotes: 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.

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

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

Richard Fortey quotes: The great museums may harbour the conscience for the natural world, not merely provide its catalogue.

The great museums may harbour the conscience for the natural world, not merely provide its catalogue.

Richard Fortey quotes: 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.

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.