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

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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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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:...

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed...

Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed...

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...

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 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...

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.

The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead

The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead

We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show....

We became spear carriers in a great televised opera. We were props in a show....

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he...

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he...

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in...

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in...

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over......

Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over......