Could we rank Archaeology as a science, a gradation of insignificance, a standard of importance might be fixed: but Archaeology is not a science: it represents the miscellaneous gatherings of the curious and observant, the mine in which a judicious quarryman will find here a fragment, there a stone dressed to his hand, all ready to be fitted into an edifice whose plan he perhaps never imagined till the fragment came his way.
Source
John Younger. 1883. "The Study of Archaeology". Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society V:131-137
via: Hirst, KK. 2009. An Archaeologist's Book of Quotations. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek California.
