Top 25 Quotes by Mary Roach of 60 - Page 3

Viagra does have a physiological effect, but it doesn't make women feel aroused. Nowadays, researchers are looking at drugs that affect the central nervous system rather than blood flow to the genitals.

Viagra does have a physiological effect, but it doesn't make women feel aroused. Nowadays, researchers are looking at drugs that affect the central nervous system rather than blood flow to the genitals.

Mary Roach

Drug, Nervous

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

Mary Roach

Wall, Heart, Mind

Mary Roach (2009). “Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex”, p.260, W. W. Norton & Company

All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

Mary Roach

Book, Research, Obsession

Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.299, Canongate Books

It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that-the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?

Mary Roach

Believe, Light, Naps

Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.12, Canongate Books

Masters points out that the heterosexuals were at a disadvantage, as they do not benefit from what he called “gender empathy”. Doing unto your partner as you would do unto yourself only works well when you're gay.

Mary Roach

Gay, Empathy, Benefits

Mary Roach (2009). “Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex”, p.307, W. W. Norton & Company

In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. (13)

Mary Roach

Memories, Ambition, Science

NASA might do well to adopt the Red Bull approach to branding and astronautics. Suddenly the man in the spacesuit is not an underpaid civil servant; he's the ultimate extreme athlete. Red Bull knows how to make space hip.

Mary Roach

Athlete, Men, Space

Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void”, p.252, W. W. Norton & Company