“I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.”
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Thinking Quotes — page 854 of 4756
“I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.”
“I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.”
“It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it”
“I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.”
“Micromessaging -- communicating with other human beings through visual, audible, sublingual means, no doubt predates our ability to speak. We actually read micromessages quite naturally without thinking about them. You might say human beings read each other's micromessages subconsciously, in the same way that one dog understands another dog is unfriendly simply because the dog's fur is standing on end. The dogs read each other perfectly. It's not all that different for people.”
“I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.”
“I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.”
“My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.”
“I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.”
“Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'”
“When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.”
“It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a Philistine. But you could walk into the same room and say, 'I don't know what a proton is,' and people would just laugh and say, 'Why should you know?'”
“Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells, and the potential they offer. Of course, the study of stem cells is one of the most exciting areas in biology, but I think it is unlikely that embryonic stem cells are likely to be useful in healthcare for a long time.”
“I'm a traditional Jew with an orthodox background, and it informs much of my approach to science. Of course I think it's very important that if you have those sorts of backgrounds you don't impose them on other people as a clinician, of course.”
“I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.”
“Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.”
“Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to enhance a human, and the next generation is going to have to deal with that issue. Should we be trying to enhance humans rather than trying to educate them and so on?”
“I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.”
“I have occasionally thought that some [TV] hosts have needed treatment, and some of these hosts have even admitted they could benefit from therapy. Having said that, I think most people can benefit from treatment. Those who need it and refuse to get it generally have the most "issues.”