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About Mary Roach
American author of popular science and humor
Mary Roach is an American author of popular science and humor. She is known for writing bestselling books that turn science into accessible, often playful nonfiction. 138 quotes on the site. Her books include Stiff, Spook, Bonk, Packing for Mars, Gulp, Grunt, Fuzz, and Replaceable You, all New York Times bestsellers. Her work often explores unusual corners of science, from human cadavers and the afterlife to sex, space, digestion, war, nature, and anatomy.
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- “I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away ins…”Mary Roach
- “Homo sapiens is one of the few species on earth that care if they’re seen having sex. The impala is unconcern…”Mary Roach
- “Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as bori…”Mary Roach
- “US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it i…”Mary Roach
Explore Science
- “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagina…”Albert Einstein
- “There may be a theology without the Scriptures — a theology of nature, gathered by painful, and slow, and som…”Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
- “I liked science very much. A science teacher in high school inspired me, and because of him, I began studying…”Theo Jansen
Music: more sayings
- “I love all music. I'm not specific. I don't just love one genre!”Kim Petras
- “To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-pa…”Henry Rollins
- “I've always tried to avoid music being direct therapy, and I've always found there's a power when you write s…”KT Tunstall
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Books by Mary Roach
Stiff
2004
Bonk
2008
Packing for Mars
2011
Grunt
2016
Gulp
2014