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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.
More from Mary Roach (138 quotes) →Other sayings from Mary Roach
- “Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.”Mary Roach
- “Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah,…”Mary Roach
- “My husband recently made me try on a bikini. A bikini is not so much a garment as a cloth-based reminder that…”Mary Roach
- “When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg in it. Growin…”Mary Roach
Science: more sayings
- “After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves…”Tom Robbins
- “Climate change is real. Climate change is being substantially increased by humans and the carbon we put into…”James Balog
- “The argument has long been made that we humans are by nature compassionate and empathic despite the occasiona…”Daniel Goleman
Explore Death
- “In the tired hand of a dying man, Theodore Senior had written: "The 'Machine politicians' have shown their co…”Edmund Morris
- “When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe and boil.”Rabindranath Tagore
- “The thing about death is that it's honest.”Laura Linney
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Books by Mary Roach
Stiff
2004
Bonk
2008
Packing for Mars
2011
Grunt
2016
Gulp
2014