What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.
Jonathan Miller

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

Science is a self-sufficient activity.
Jonathan Miller

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

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

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?
Jonathan Miller

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