Jonathan Miller Quotes

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• What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.
• I spend a lot of my time trying to draw the attention of actors to the minute and subtle details of human behavior, which was…
• As we know from the work of certain fundamental physicists, people like Einstein were very dependent upon conjuring up visual images in order to imagine…
• Science is a self-sufficient activity.
• A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.
• Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and…
• What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an…
• Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.
• Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
• Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas.
• Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make as a result of things happening to us
• 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 where…
• I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects,…
• 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…
• I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
• 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 of…
• I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.
• 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 be…
• 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…
• People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.

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