Mary Roach Quotes

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• Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.
• Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.
• The point is that no matter what you choose to do with your body when you die, it won't, ultimately, be very appealing. If you…
• My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub…
• Normally I object to strangers beaming force fields into my brain.
• It's this mood, these sentiments - the excitement of exploration and the surprises and delights of travel to foreign locales - that I hope to…
• Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.
• Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto…
• In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.
• The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.
• There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.
• To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously…
• All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can't wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?
• Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us,…
• For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've…
• I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I…
• I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he…
• I've read plenty of amazing science pieces where the writers don't hang out in labs. I just have fun doing it. And I get rewarded…
• If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never…
• You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a…

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