Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that.

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A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.

A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

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Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying...

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It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to...

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You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're...

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What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.

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Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators...

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Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind,...

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What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in...

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Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing:...

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People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want...

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.

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Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing:...

Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind,...

Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind,...

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I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to...

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I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if...

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What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but...

As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very...

As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very...