56 Alice Roberts Quotes for You to Enjoy

Alice Roberts

English Scientist

Born: May 19, 1973

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It’s tempting to look back into history with rose-tinted glasses. Most people in the Stone Age didn't live anywhere near as long as we're living now. Today we can enjoy a more wide-ranging diet and we have fruit and vegetables available all year round. Alice Roberts

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I’m a firm believer in teaching children to manage risk. Alice Roberts

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Science is about questioning things. Alice Roberts

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When I started doing television, I was very aware my clothes would be obvious and it was a great opportunity to promote brands which are made with respect to people and the environment. Alice Roberts

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If we don’t concentrate on resurrecting science, we’re not going to be able to compete in a global economy. Alice Roberts

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Our ape legs make us great generalists - we can walk, run and climb. But when you try to do too many things at once, you can end up with problems. Alice Roberts

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As an anthropologist, I believe strongly in our common humanity. We can rise above the tribal divisions that have caused so much anguish and real damage in the past. Alice Roberts

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The human knee is complex and prone to failure in a variety of ways; there’s a lot of muscle mass low down in the legs which makes moving them fairly inefficient. Alice Roberts

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The important thing is when you look at areas like physics and you realise that only one in five A-level students is a girl. We know it isn’t about aptitude. Alice Roberts

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Always attempting to tame and subjugate nature is not the solution. But the latest science is helping us to map out a path across this shifting landscape in uncertain times, showing us how to work with natural forces, not against them. Alice Roberts

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The science of being healthy is well-known. It is not esoteric. There are no magic bullets. If you want to live a long life, we’ve known the answers for more than a hundred years. It’s a wide-ranging diet with as much fruit and veg as you can stuff into yourself, and plenty of exercise. It doesn't even matter what kind of exercise. Alice Roberts

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Stonehenge is famously aligned with midsummer sunrise, and possibly also intentionally with midwinter sunset. Alice Roberts

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I find humanism to be the most rational and positive philosophy for life. And it’s not a new thing at all - the history of humanist thought is deep and inspiring. Alice Roberts

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I know a bit about vertebrate anatomy and I’d like to think that I’d spot if a skeleton was entirely fabricated or cobbled together from existing bits and pieces. Alice Roberts

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It’s incredible that the layout of the centre of Chester, for instance, is still essentially that of the original Roman fort. Alice Roberts

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Just as your own existence is unlikely and far from inevitable, the evolution of modern humans as a species depended on a whole string of chance events - some happening in the environments our ancestors inhabited, and some inside their own bodies, including random mutations in their DNA. Alice Roberts

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Chance is hugely significant in biology. In fact, the presence of apparent randomness in so many aspects of biology - from mutations in DNA to the chance involved in that one sperm reaching that one egg that became you - suggests that randomness is useful, even necessary, in very many cases. Alice Roberts

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Then the BBC approached me in 2005 and asked me to be one of the presenters of the series 'Coast', which turned into a very long-running series. Alice Roberts

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We’re not the only mammals who are partial to blackberries, far from it. Foxes and badgers will also gobble them up, helping to distribute the seeds, which survive the transit through the gut. Alice Roberts

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