Greta Gerwig

There's something very satisfying about old cameras because they're ingenious. I mean when you take them apart and actually see, 'Oh, this is how we make photographs,' it's an ingenious thing, but it feels like it's in a way a layman can appreciate, whereas a digital camera, I don't even begin to know what goes into making a digital camera.

American Actress

James Turrell

The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.

American Artist

Suzanne Somers

I am not a doctor or a scientist, but merely a passionate layperson, a filter, a messenger. I spoke with so many patients who are living normal, happy, fulfilled lives, and their enthusiasm and great quality of life convinced me that you can indeed live with cancer.

Shakuntala Devi

I travelled round the world giving demonstrations of my talents. In every country, I performed for students, professors, teachers, bankers, accountants, and even laymen who knew very little, or nothing at all, about mathematics.

Indian Writer

Thomas Becket

I was called before the king's tribunal like a layman and was deserted in the quarter where I had looked for support. My brethren, the bishops, sided with the court and were ready to pronounce judgment against me.

English Clergyman

Jamie Lee Curtis

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

Noam Chomsky

There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

American Activist

Simone Weil

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

French Philosopher

Laura San Giacomo

I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.

Joy Mathew

I treat everyone equally whether you are an intellectual, a layman or an auto driver.

Indian Actor

Use 'layman' to specify someone's lack of expertise in professional or technical settings.

Non-professional Context

Say 'in layman's terms' when simplifying complex ideas for a general audience.

Simplifying Terms

'Layman' is informal and often used to humble oneself or acknowledge a conversational partner's expertise.

Everyday Usage

In religious context, 'layman' indicates a church member who isn't ordained but participates in activities.

Religious Participation

Understanding 'layman' in religion involves knowing church hierarchies and roles.

Church Hierarchy

'Layman' stresses the non-clerical community's role and point of view in religious discourse.

Laity Involvement

 important I think there's no other way about it like the title a deep analysis every animal is a deserter story as scientists we may collect data and sit on a boat and take all these equipments and that's okay but if we cannot collect the information and transform it in a way that the layperson can understand

Every Animal Deserves a...

 So let me now apply this to a current controversy, not because I want to advocate any particular solution, but just to illustrate the kind of thing I mean. And the controversy is global warming. Now, I'm a physicist, but I'm not the right kind of physicist. In regard to global warming, I'm just a layman.

David Deutsch: Chemical...

 typical things that guys do like pie and relativity and drawing and somehow managed to get her interested in talking to me and as we talked she said what a lot of people had told me she said when you show me the drawings and you say this in laymen terms it makes the concept really easy to understand and

How math saved my life PIPE...

 finger just wipe off and we see the elephant okay and then if we want we can continue this flow and to find out for example on the staircase the whole iconography is going to be changed a lot of laymen

Layman

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