Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility. Jonathan Miller Read Quote
I wasn’t driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. Jonathan Miller Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
