# Quote — Gregory Benford, Artifact

> Archeology is mostly a process of making associations between objects, and every discovery opens up possible resonances with things we already have. Sometimes, simply wandering through a museum or a site can open your eyes.

- Author: [Gregory Benford](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford.md)
- Book: [Artifact](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact.md)
- Page: 107
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gregory_Benford#Artifact_(1985)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact/archeology-is-mostly

## More from this book

> This was what never failed to stir her—the unfathomable gulf between today’s thinking and the way the ancients thought. They were truly alien, not merely innocent agrarians with a foolish faith.

p. 246 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact/this-was-what.md)

> Just because something’s crazy, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

p. 228 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact/just-because-somethings.md)

> Still, Claire hated Charlotte Brontë’s comment that she would have given all her talent to be beautiful. That condemned you always to play somebody else’s game—and, when your looks failed—finally to lose.

p. 245 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-benford/artifact/still-claire-hated.md)