Archeologist Quotes

This is a Rosetta Stone finding. Usually, we're limited to studying the current snapshot of the heavens. For the first time, we have the opportunity to study the original light from the outburst and the debris left behind centuries later in the same way that archeologists make links with ancient civilizations. - Doug Welch

The archeologist said it was probably best if we stepped away and let the graves remain where they were. We'd also rather just leave them alone. - Bob Nichols

Somehow, I have no idea how the transition was made from wanting to be an archeologist or a marine biologist, to wanting to be an actress, but it just kind of happened. - Gillian Anderson

Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device. - Dave Barry

Prior to 1850, caskets were like Dracula's; they were widest at the shoulder and narrowed down. When they dug a grave, they dug down to a point and then they dug the hole to match the shape of the coffin. This produced a shoulder of undisturbed soil, the coffin ledge, that the archeologist was probing. I tried it, and it takes quite some skill. - Rick Beggs

It's a continual excavation process, you could say. It's like being an archeologist of your own instrument as a kind of microcosm of the human voice, of human utterance, of sound itself. By digging into my own voice I'm uncovering feelings and energies for which we don't have words - it's like shades of feeling, early human utterance, and essential human nature. - Meredith Monk

I only knew him as an excellent painter. I don't know he is an archeologist, let alone anything about the tea stuff. - Yang Yuxin

Early on, the scanning tunneling microscope was more used like an archeologist's tool, where you were seeing things for the first time. - Robert Celotta

An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. - Unknown