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"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."
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"At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!"
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"It is possible for you to realise your dream as a scientist, you must be a passionate learner and curious enough to seek this wonderful career path."
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"... science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy."
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"The ratio of feed to flesh in chicken, the most efficient animal by this measure, is two pounds of corn to one of meat, which is why chicken costs less than beef."
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"Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination."
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"When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion."
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"It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some reason that makes no sense at all, they think it supports their case. Precisely the opposite is true. The anthropic principle, like natural selection, is an alternative to the design hypothesis. It provides a rational, design-free explanation for the fact that we find ourselves in a situation propitious to our existence."
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"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing."
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"What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us."
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"When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two."
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"If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again."
Children
"If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You were whisked about and shown things. I did work very hard though."
Work
"At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes."
Funny
"I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it."
Science
"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children."
Mother
"I was often very, incredibly naughty, and if I didn't come home at tea time I used to be sent to bed without any dinner. But people used to bring me things: I was better fed in bed."
Home
"Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money."
Money
"If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion."
Fashion
"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."
Skill
"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say."
Father
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