Michael Brooks Quotes

#1. Every advance [in Science] will most likely tell us as much about ourselves as it will about the universe we inhabit. We are all collections of chemicals made in the cataclysmic explosions of stars; we are stardust, or nuclear waste, depending on your perspective.

Michael Brooks

#2. Studies show that neurotic and psychiatric disorders are more common among those who attempt to keep conscious control of life and suppress its unwelcome quirks. Sanity, paradoxically, may lie in accepting that you are not in control.

Michael Brooks

#3. ...we had bypassed Romeo and Juliet and gone straight to Macbeth.

Michael Brooks

#4. As noted, there's nothing wrong with the DTP vaccine per se. However, studies that have been going on for more than two decades show that, when it is administered after other vaccines, such as BCG or measles vaccine, the combination can be deadly. But only if you're a girl.

Michael Brooks

#5. There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe - or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

Michael Brooks

#6. Sometimes, the idea that science is a neutral, careful, bias-avoiding discipline has a bad day.

Michael Brooks