• I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

    Jane Goodall: I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.
    "Chimps with everything: Jane Goodall's 50 years in the jungle" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.