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> [You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and you're being taught to think that it's the most serious thing that anyone could possibly do, and then suddenly you find yourself doing something that in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/you-spend-ten-years-of-your-life-being-trained-to-do-one-thing-and/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

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## More by Jonathan Miller

> [I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/i-m-not-against-asking-the-audience-to-work-but-i-think-what-you-have/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [It's usually the people that are most obsessed with being in a relationship that are the least prepared to make work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/it-s-usually-the-people-that-are-most-obsessed-with-being-in-a/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/i-m-not-really-a-jew-just-jew-ish-not-the-whole-hog/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/errors-of-taste-are-very-often-the-outward-sign-of-a-deep-fault-of/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/the-burden-of-the-past-is-only-i-think-oppressive-when-you-ve-got-to/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [Science is a self-sufficient activity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/science-is-a-self-sufficient-activity/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/someone-like-einstein-was-quite-clearly-a-moralist-and-he-had-a-very/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/as-we-know-from-the-work-of-certain-fundamental-physicists-people/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/i-wasn-t-driven-into-medicine-by-a-social-conscience-but-by-rampant/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [“I was just rather fascinated by certain what seemed to me insoluble paradoxes about reflection, about what it was like to look in one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/i-was-just-rather-fascinated-by-certain-what-seemed-to-me-insoluble/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/being-a-doctor-has-taught-me-a-lot-about-directing-you-re-doing-the/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [It's not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other people's costumes and pretending to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/it-s-not-that-shakespeare-is-frivolous-but-you-spend-your-time-just/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/people-can-t-draw-now-and-don-t-feel-it-s-necessary-art-students-don/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/people-are-already-self-selected-by-the-time-they-ve-decided-to/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

> [The foyer at Covent Garden looks like Harrods food hall has offered up its dead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-miller/the-foyer-at-covent-garden-looks-like-harrods-food-hall-has-offered/)

[Jonathan Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-miller/)

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