A Quote by Tim Ferriss

I am a human guinea pig and a professional dilettante.

Tim Ferriss

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Tim Ferriss
American - Author
Born: July 20, 1977

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

John L. Phillips

It's not that weird, but when I was in Peru, I ate a guinea pig. If you're going to eat guinea pig, you call it cuy. Cute word for such a cute little animal that I ate a few times.

Nick Kroll

It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole guinea pig. But it is a whole tree and a whole guinea pig that have survived and evolved, and we must make the attempt.

Gardner Murphy

The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

Philip Emeagwali

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

Marilu Henner

I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.

Antoni Tapies

I never thought, "I'm going to be an artist". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist", which is true.

Yoko Ono

We're kind of a guinea pig generation.

Simone Giertz

I have a cat. When I was younger, I had a guinea pig.

Alison Goldfrapp

I've always been like a guinea pig when it comes to health trends.

Hannah Bronfman

When I was a child, I named my rabbit Pancake and my guinea pig Maple Syrup.

Sophie Dahl

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

Cornelia Funke

It might seem strange to feast on Guinea pig, but Ecuadorians love to eat cuy. Personally, I think it's a phenomenal alternative to pork or chicken. High in protein, low in fat, cheap and easy to raise. Oh, and cuy tastes great, much like roast pig. You might call it a pet, but I prefer to call it dinner.

Andrew Zimmern

What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig.

Cate Blanchett

At the time when I was conducting my research there was no known method for taking the guinea pig's temperature. I demonstrated a technique which is now widely used.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.

Peter Beard

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