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Jonathan Miller Quotes
A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest. - 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
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. - Jonathan Miller Quotes
Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. Youre doing the same thing: Youre reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, thats exactly like people I know. - Jonathan Miller Quotes
Besides, science creates its own agenda. There are problems leftover at the end of the day which you have to solve the next morning. - Jonathan Miller Quotes
Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. - 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 doesnt make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case. - 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 was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if youre 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 wasnt driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. - Jonathan Miller Quotes
Im not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result of a fashion of literary deconstructionism indicating that there are no meanings. - Jonathan Miller Quotes
Im not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog. - Jonathan Miller Quotes
Its not that Shakespeare is frivolous, but you spend your time just getting people to dress up in other peoples costumes and pretending to be people that theyre not, and you think, after the years go by, well, what on earth was all that about? - Jonathan Miller Quotes
Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do theyre trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that its right. - Jonathan Miller Quotes
People are already self-selected by the time theyve decided to become scientists. - Jonathan Miller Quotes
People cant draw now and dont feel its necessary. Art students dont seem to want to draw. - Jonathan Miller Quotes
Science is a self-sufficient activity. - Jonathan Miller Quotes
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 there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that. - Jonathan Miller Quotes
The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when youve got to go on the experience of the avant garde. - Jonathan Miller Quotes
The thing about science is that its an accurate picture of the world. - Jonathan Miller Quotes
What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist. - 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. Thats what their substance is. - 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
You spend ten years of your life being trained to do one thing, and youre being taught to think that its 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
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