
“She seems like me — serious and policy-focused.”
Describing actress Jodi Foster and explaining she'd like Foster to play her in a TV-movie, the Saratogian, November 5, 2006
Source: Addiction to Perfection (1982), p. 11
“She seems like me — serious and policy-focused.”
Describing actress Jodi Foster and explaining she'd like Foster to play her in a TV-movie, the Saratogian, November 5, 2006
Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
“Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.”
Sometimes attributed to Heisenberg, this was actually a statement made by Niels Bohr, as quoted in The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery (2000) by Abraham Pais, p. 24
Some things are so serious that one can only joke about them.
Variant without any citation as to author in Denial is not a river in Egypt (1998) by Sandi Bachom, p. 85
Misattributed
“Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.”
As quoted in The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery (2000) by Abraham Pais, p. 24
Some things are so serious that one can only joke about them.
Variant without any citation as to author in Denial is not a river in Egypt (1998) by Sandi Bachom, p. 85.
“My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but can she climb a tree.”
"The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America" (2001)
Statement in Detroit, Michigan (10 November 1963).
Attributed
“Humor bridges the weight of serious reflection.”
interview with Lorin Morgan-Richards by Rose Traul of Columbia College Chicago (22 January 2013).