Paths
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Indiana Jones: Great theories, sir.
Charles Darwin: Comes from careful fieldwork.
Indiana Jones: Always have this feeling to be a good archaeologist,
I gotta get out of the lab.
Charles Darwin: But in the end you have to spend most of your time
in the lab to analyze the data and construct your theories.
Voice-over
Aside from Darwin being a naturalist and Jones being an
archaeologist, they left different discoveries, different legacies. You can run
around cracking a whip, collecting specimens, and collecting good stories.
But in the end the theories are the greatest goal. Discovering an ark, a phantom symbol of people’s superstitions, doesn’t seem quite as compelling an achievement
as divining the origin of species.
Yet it seems to be easier to make a film about a lost ark than
creation.
And it seems Indiana Jones was more comfortable immersed in
fieldwork than in the library.
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