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Jonathan Miller Quotes

People can’t draw now and don’t feel it’s necessary. Art students don’t seem to want to draw Picture Quote #1

People are already self-selected by the time they’ve decided to become scientists Picture Quote #1

A lot of high - level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest Picture Quote #1

The thing about science is that it’s an accurate picture of the world Picture Quote #1

What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist Picture Quote #1

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility Picture Quote #1

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I wasn’t driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity Picture Quote #1

People can’t draw now and don’t feel it’s necessary. Art students don’t seem to want to draw Picture Quote #1

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 some respects is the epitome of frivolity Picture Quote #1

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 image of their affluence Picture Quote #1

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That’s what their substance is Picture Quote #1

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you’ve got to go on the experience of the avant garde Picture Quote #1

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In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners Picture Quote #1

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 represented in an alternative way and that it’s right Picture Quote #1

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 scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison Picture Quote #1

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 the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist Picture Quote #1

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, and a window, which doesn’t make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case Picture Quote #1

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 an audience says, yes, that’s exactly like people I know Picture Quote #1

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Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves Picture Quote #1

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People can’t draw now and don’t feel it’s necessary. Art students don’t seem to want to draw. (Jonathan Miller Quotes) People are already self-selected by the time they’ve decided to become scientists (Jonathan Miller Quotes) A lot of high - level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest (Jonathan Miller Quotes) The thing about science is that it’s an accurate picture of the world (Jonathan Miller Quotes) What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist (Jonathan Miller Quotes) Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility (Jonathan Miller Quotes) I wasn’t driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity (Jonathan Miller Quotes) People can’t draw now and don’t feel it’s necessary. Art students don’t seem to want to draw (Jonathan Miller Quotes) 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 some respects is the epitome of frivolity (Jonathan Miller Quotes) 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 image of their affluence (Jonathan Miller Quotes) What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That’s what their substance is (Jonathan Miller Quotes) The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you’ve got to go on the experience of the avant garde (Jonathan Miller Quotes) In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners (Jonathan Miller Quotes) 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 represented in an alternative way and that it’s right (Jonathan Miller Quotes) 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 scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison (Jonathan Miller Quotes) 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 the sort of thing I was looking at when I was a neurologist (Jonathan Miller Quotes) 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, and a window, which doesn’t make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case (Jonathan Miller Quotes) 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 an audience says, yes, that’s exactly like people I know (Jonathan Miller Quotes) Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves (Jonathan Miller Quotes)