Scientists are very afraid of being prov... by Donald Johanson | We Heart Quotes

Being Wrong Evolution Lucy Paleoanthropologist

Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.

- Donald Johanson

Other quotes by Donald Johanson

Marriage Years First

When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

- Donald Johanson

Answers Fact Right

And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In fact, where we didn't even know the right questions to ask.

- Donald Johanson

Body

Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.

- Donald Johanson

Time

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.

- Donald Johanson

Death Will

I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.

- Donald Johanson

Successful

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

- Donald Johanson

You might like

The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

- Patty Duke

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

- Graham Nelson

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

- Jane Austen

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

- Damon Hill