Bill Irwin Quotes

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

The first time I showed the tattoo, it was big news in the newspaper: 'She has a tattoo with a snake.' It's not a snake.

The public's not stupid.

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

People don't understand complex issues.

When Miranda first started becoming popular, not many people knew who she was. People were confused by her. They thought she was a real person. I got a lot of interesting responses.

When we met Susan Boyle she was a very unassuming lady. We didn't expect anything and we were probably a little dismissive of her.

One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language

We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis.

The world isn't what you think it is.

He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by their imagination, whom they had been eagerly seeking all their lives; and afterwards, when they noticed their mistake, they loved him all the same.

There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate.

You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.

Whoever thought that he had understood something of me had merely construed something out of me, after his own image.

Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it.

Those people upstairs think that Karl Marx was somebody who wrote a good anti-trust law.

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.

People think I shave my eyebrow... It's a scar.