"I Started Crying When I Realized How Beautiful the Universe Is” | People I (Mostly) Admire Ep. 2: Mayim Bialik

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🗓️ 5 September 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

She’s best known for playing neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler on The Big Bang Theory, but the award-winning actress has a rich life outside of her acting career, as a teacher, mother — and a real-life neuroscientist. Steve Levitt tries to learn more about this one-time academic and Hollywood non-conformist, who is both very similar to him and also quite his opposite.

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0:00.0	I struggled all the way through undergrad,
0:02.5	and I struggled all the way through grad school as well,
0:04.3	because I'm not a natural science learner.
0:07.3	I'm a person who wants to understand
0:08.9	deeply the mysteries of the universe,
0:11.0	and even if you're a stay-at-home mom after that,
0:13.1	even if you become an actor on a TV show,
0:15.7	the knowledge that I have as a scientist
0:17.8	has transformed my understanding of my religious life,
0:20.6	my parenting life, and really everything
0:23.2	about the world that I live in.
0:24.6	I'm so excited to get to speak with my ambiolic today.
0:32.0	I've never talked to a before,
0:33.1	this would be the first time we've met,
0:35.5	but in a strange way, I kind of feel like I know
0:38.0	we're having watched our big bank theory for so many years.
0:43.4	Welcome to People I Mostly Admire, with Steve Levitt.
0:48.9	I'll be totally honest with you,
0:49.9	I'm not sure that I have much to talk about
0:53.4	with a typical Hollywood star,
0:55.2	but I'm hoping that my mom's gonna be different.
0:58.2	She's got a PhD in neuroscience,
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