Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.

Quote by Jonathan Miller

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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,...

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.

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which...

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

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

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

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now...

I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now...

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.

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

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

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

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

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...

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,...

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.

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.

I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.

I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.