No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
Interpretation
Mary Leakey emphasizes the unique richness of knowledge that ancient art can provide compared to physical remains.
In this quote, Mary Leakey highlights the invaluable insights offered by ancient paintings, suggesting that they convey deeper understandings of human experience and culture that are not easily gleaned from the mere study of artifacts like stone and bone. This underscores the significance of art as a window into the lives, thoughts, and emotions of our ancestors, revealing more about our history than just physical remnants ever could.
In practice
During a lecture on anthropology, I might use this quote to illustrate the significance of visual culture.
There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely
I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.
She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.
Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.
Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.
The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l; _x000D_ the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent _x000D_ the rich visual world of experience and _x000D_ measurement on mere flatland?
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.
The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position then exactly measured, the position for times previous to the measurement may be calculated.
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