Science is a self-sufficient activity.

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 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

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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'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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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...

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

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

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.

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.