Alice Roberts Quotes

I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

If you really want to be a good archaeologist, you have to understand ancient DNA; you have to understand chemical analysis to figure out the composition of ancient pots. You have to be able to study human remains. You need to be able to do computer processing and, in some cases, computer programming.

I've never really seen archaeology as being any different from history. What I love are the stories of human beings that were around 1,000 years ago and how they lived - archaeology is another aspect to that.

If you misdiagnose, if you misdiagnose anything, whether it's a serious disease or a international geopolitical threat, you will never solve it.

By recognizing that infectious disease is not some faraway exotic issue but a global problem, and by sharing the responsibility for its prevention, diagnosis, and control, the whole world will be a lot safer.

All over the world, we're finding out that, you know, whether it's Egypt or Syria or Central America, what satellites are showing is that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of previously unknown settlements all over the world, and what archaeology does, it helps us to understand this common humanity that we have.

History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.

18th century opera is packed with emotion, but contains not a trace of kitsch. Only with the 'thees' and 'thous' of Victorian poetry does the disease begin to grow in our poetic tradition.

A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.

I read a lot of history for fun.

In the early 19th to the early 20th century, people had a lot of things wrong with them. Doctors didn't know how to fix them, and so they lived with them.

I'd always been fascinated by archaeology; it was my original career plan as a kid.

I am just a history nerd.

When you think about archaeology, archaeology is the only field that allows us to tell the story of 99 percent of our history prior to 3,000 B.C. and writing.

Archaeology holds all the keys to understanding who we are and where we come from.

My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins.

I guess I just like the idea of digging things up. Although I used to be scared of human skeletons.

I think that New York City in the year 1900 was a very difficult place to survive.

What is time, really? When you are diagnosed with a terminal disease like cancer or leukemia, your perception of time changes.

About six months after I had my little boy in April 2014, I ended up getting a kidney disease.

I love historical references.

I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.

I'm fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past.

Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.