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- The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things. -- Joanne Harris
- The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional. -- Hugo Black
- I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it. -- Laura San Giacomo
- The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman. -- Alan Perlis
- There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism. -- Noam Chomsky
- More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. -- Simone Weil
- The key to understanding my career is that I was never into technology. From the beginning, I brought an outsider's point of view, which is why I write for a layman's publication. -- David Pogue
- Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now. -- John Noble
- His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of the few Londoners upon whom sainthood has been conferred and the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr. -- Peter Ackroyd
- From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary. -- Victor Francis Hess
- It's terrifying the way molecular biology has become more and more jargon ridden. But I strongly believe that my book can be read by the intelligent layman. I want everyone who bought a copy of 'A Brief History of Time' to buy a copy of 'Genome'. -- Matt Ridley
- Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate. -- Louis MacNeice
- I went to see Alison Krauss and Union Station at Disney Hall and I would say it was one of the most astonishing sonic experiences I have had. It's an enormous room that's acoustically perfect. My interpretation of receiving music as a layman is that the way the music kind of settled on me in that room was perfection. -- John C. McGinley
- I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice. -- Haniel Long
- A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it -- Martin Luther
- You simply collapsed, sir. In layman's terms, your body revoked its permission for you to continue heaping abuse upon it. -- Scott Lynch
- In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract." -- Mike DeWine
- If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing. -- Helen McCloy
- Every interview I do, when I'm asked about scientific issues, I say I'm not a climate scientist. I'm just giving you the informed layman's perspective... . -- Myron Ebell
- The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again. -- Kurt Vonnegut
- We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer. -- Criss Jami
- When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault. -- Salvador Dali
- Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living. -- Erwin Chargaff
- Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly but that would lose the average layman. -- Pharrell Williams
- Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
- That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the light of the Holy Spirit ... Acquire peace, and thousands around you will be saved. -- Seraphim of Sarov
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