Jonathan Miller Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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 people that they're not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about?”

“I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.”

“The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.”

“The thing about science is that it's an accurate picture of the world.”

“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.”

“People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists.”

“People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.”

“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.”

“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 things which otherwise were not easily formulated.”