Mary Roach Quotes

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• The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in…
• I would have sold my wife and children into slavery for a ride into space.
• NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not an underpaid civil…
• Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.
• The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying…
• The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison,…
• Worry lives a long way from rational thought."---Self
• I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no…
• The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to…
• It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with…
• It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.
• Death. It doesn't have to be boring.
• All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.
• Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at…
• Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.
• Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency…
• In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free…
• You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.), F.A.C.O.G.
• You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.
• Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as people…

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