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Mary Roach ist eine US-amerikanische Kolumnistin und Autorin populärwissenschaftlicher Sachbücher.

✵ 20. März 1959  •  Andere Namen 瑪麗·羅區, مری روچ
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“The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.”

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Mary Roach buch Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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“Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”

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Mary Roach

“We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”

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Mary Roach buch Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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“The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have I seen a head in a roasting pan.”

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Mary Roach buch Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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“It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls.”

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Mary Roach buch Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

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“Death. It doesn't have to be boring.”

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Mary Roach buch Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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“You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.”

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Mary Roach buch Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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“Hormones are nature's three bottles of beer.”

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Mary Roach buch Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

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“Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government redlining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let's squander some on Mars. Let's go out and play.”

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Mary Roach buch Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

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“The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.”

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Mary Roach buch Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

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“In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.”

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Mary Roach buch Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

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“Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.”

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Mary Roach buch Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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