"Archaeology is a deeply conservative discipline and I have found that archaeologists, no matter where they are working, have a horror of questioning anything their predecessors and peers have already announced to be true. They run a very real risk of jeopardizing their careers if they do. In consequence they focus—perhaps to a large extent subconsciously—on evidence and arguments that don't upset the applecart. There might be room for some tinkering around the edges, some refinement of orthodox ideas, but God forbid that anything should be discovered that might seriously undermine the established paradigm."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Graham_Hancock
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Graham Hancock
10 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Graham Hancock →
Related Quotes
"We can no longer think of the so-called Fertile Crescent of Sumeria as the cradle of civilization. What seems more li…"
"Ancient Egypt, like that of the Olmecs (Bolivia), emerged all at once and fully formed. Indeed, the period of transit…"
"Indian thought has traditionally regarded history and prehistory in cyclical rather than linear terms. In the West ti…"
"We might feel very sure that there is no more to reality that the material world in which we live, but we cannot prov…"
"Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness, and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind …"
"We have severed our connection to spirit. That's what our society has done. It has sought to persuade us that the mat…"
"If ever a society could be said to meet all the mythological criteria of the next lost civilization—a society that ti…"
"Science in the twenty-first century does not encourage scientists to take risks in their pursuit of "the facts"—parti…"
"After the first Neanderthal skeletal remains were identified in Europe in the nineteenth century it was, for a very l…"
"Will books, as we know them, come to an end? Yes, absolutely, within 25 years the digital revolution will bring about…"