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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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Explore Physics
- “Conscious access to memory is a unique trait of living things, but memory itself is not. It's encoded in the…”M.R. Graham
- “My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confr…”Peter Higgs
- “If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go d…”Henri Poincare
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Books by Mary Roach
Stiff
2004
Bonk
2008
Packing for Mars
2011
Grunt
2016
Gulp
2014