I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.

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

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

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:...

Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make...

Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make...

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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,...

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...

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

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

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.

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:...

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go...

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go...

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...

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,...

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.

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...

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...

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...