“I decided to experiment with normality.”

—  Tara Westover, book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 24, “A Knight, Errant” (p. 212)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Feb. 20, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I decided to experiment with normality." by Tara Westover?
Tara Westover photo
Tara Westover17
American historian and author 1986

Related quotes

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan photo

“Psychic experiences are a state of consciousness beyond the understanding of the normal, and the supernormal is traced to the supernatural.”

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975) Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice President and the second President of India

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Paulo Coelho photo

“Dream and love are just words - until you decide to experience them”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Maureen Johnson photo

“There is no normal. I've never met a normal person. The concept is flawed. It implies that there is only one way people are supposed to be, and that can't possible be true. Human experience is far too varied.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Madness Underneath

William James photo

“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

Antony Garrett Lisi photo

“I think that, without experimental checks, physics can — and has — gone off the rails ... experiment has to be the ultimate decider of what is good physics.”

Antony Garrett Lisi (1968) American theoretical physicist

[Garrett Lisi: An EXCEPTIONAL Theory of Everything LIVE CHAT, January 21, 2021, YouTube, Dr Brian Keating, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCZxpMTzRP4] (quote at 20:28 of 54:54)

Anaïs Nin photo

“Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Guity Novin photo

“I love to experiment with all styles, and do not have any particular prejudice or bias towards any specific style. These works appear, and they turn out, the way they should. I do not decide in what style I want to paint. I am only experimenting. Even Picasso, when he arrived at Cubism, had already experimented with a lot of other styles.”

Guity Novin (1944) artist

Source: Ayandegan (1973), p. 4

David Gross photo

“Remarkably, the building of the Standard Model — the theory of how particles and forces interact — was the success of the conservatives. It required no revolution at the foundational level. Normal physics, the kind that goes on experiment after experiment, produced the Standard Model.”

David Gross (1941) American particle physicist and string theorist

"Waiting for the Revolution" https://www.quantamagazine.org/20130524-waiting-for-the-revolution/, an interview of David Gross by Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine (2013)

Terry Pratchett photo

“But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Color of Magic

Related topics