Egyptology Quotes & Sayings

I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices. — Tess Gerritsen

Eventually, when I started studying Egyptology, I realized that seeing with my naked eyes alone wasn't enough. Because all of the sudden, in Egypt, my beach had grown from a tiny beach in Maine to one eight hundred miles long, next to the Nile. — Sarah Parcak

The Egyptian duck is a dangerous animal: one snap of its beak and you are infected with Egyptology for life. — Auguste Mariette

God!...If only I had not read so much Egyptology before coming to this land which is the fountain of all darkness and terror! — H.P. Lovecraft

I became interested, through reading the works of some novelist, in Egyptology and made a study of the pyramids. It was just a hobby, but I had a desire to know all I could about everything I could. — Charles M. Schwab

Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life — Charleston Parker

As a boy I was obsessed with Egypt and Egyptology. I'm convinced it's not that uncommon. A lot of 10 or 12 year old boys become obsessed with Egypt. It's a bit like young girls and horses ... — Bill Henson

Your Life Determines Your Journey & Your Journey Determines Your Life — Charleston Parker

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher. — Thomas E. Woods Jr.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology — Malcolm X

In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus. — James Henry Breasted

You cannot grant to universities the intellectual freedom that scholarship requires, it is argued, and also deny the moral freedom that enables students to adapt through their own "experiments in living." Freedom is indivisible, and without it knowledge cannot grow.
The problem with that argument is that, outside the natural sciences and a few solid humanities like philosophy and Egyptology, academic freedom is a thing of the past. What is expected of the student in many courses in the humanities and social sciences is ideological conformity, rather than critical appraisal, and censorship has become accepted as a legitimate part of the academic way of life. — Roger Scruton