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A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.

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

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

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Now, that is in a way also what scientists are trying to do they're trying to get people to see that the world can be represented in an alternative way and that it's right.

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The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

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People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

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I'm 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.

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Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.

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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.

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I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Entertainer

Born: July 21st, 1934

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