Top 30 Angier Quotes

#1. Who needs a handgun when you've got a semiautomatic?

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #11591
#2. Surveys show that surveys never lie.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #86041
#3. Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #101716
#4. Touch is ... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #101797
#5. We may love men and we may live with men, but some of them have said stupendously inaccurate things about us, our bodies, and our psyches.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #227761
#6. Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality square on but taking nothing on its face. It is about attacking a problem with the most manicured of claws and tearing it down into sensible, edible pieces.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #302631
#7. Open the ovoid mother and find the ovoid girl; open the child and the next egg grins up its invitation to crack it. You can never tell a priori how many iterations await you; you hope they continue forever. My daughter, my matryoshka.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #348380
#8. We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least
call it a mechanospiritual sense
we are meant to be. We are good eggs, every one of us.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #445646
#9. As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front atheists with the indifferent nonbelievers, you end up with a much larger group of people than Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and Unitarians put together.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #508107
#10. Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm need only to show up- wearing top hat and tails, of course.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #702711
#11. Giving a girl the impression that girlhood is an extended bounce on Barney's knee is like prepping a young gazelle for life on the Serengeti by dipping it in cream.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #814763
#12. The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #853781
#13. Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #887431
#14. In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #930073
#15. The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #975856
#16. You have your opinion, I have mine, and it takes all kinds of nuts and dips to make a party, right?

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #1005569
#17. We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #1023607
#18. An internally conceived and gestated fetus is a protected fetus, and a protected fetus is a fetus freed to loll about long enough to bloom a giant brain. So we lend new meaning to the term egghead: from the cloistered egg is born the bulging frontal lobe.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #1031839
#19. Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #1093153
#20. We lived so long and so self-consciously that we assumed we must live forever, and we buried our dead with enough talismans and spare change for eternity.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #1151543
#21. He said. Academy alumni with quantitative skills go on to become stockbrokers. There are damned few patrician scientists.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #1241375
#22. A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? It figures! In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live.

Bradford Angier

Angier Quotes #1242418
#23. Most keep their condition secret from all but a few close friends. Interestingly, many of them say the thing they regret most is not their inability to have children but the lack of menstruation, the event they see as a monthly voucher of femaleness.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #1311222
#24. Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #1360165
#25. Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle Vicks VapoRub for the national charley horse, it's clear that his hands were reaching for any hands but mine.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #1409787
#26. Evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind. Some of its inventions prove elegant, while in others you can see the seams and dried glue.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #1423990
#27. The sovereign individual cannot escape to any degree the rules and practices of gardening.

Tom P. S. Angier

Angier Quotes #1490149
#28. Scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #1490572
#29. the act of looking and being looked at.

Roswell Angier

Angier Quotes #1556909
#30. I may not believe in life after death, but what a gift it is to be alive now.

Natalie Angier

Angier Quotes #1717185

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