Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of...

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of...

The decision doesn't have to be logical, it was unanimous.

The decision doesn't have to be logical, it was unanimous.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no...

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no...

Sickness shows us what we are

Sickness shows us what we are