Ben Okri Quotes

I just wanted to be a scientist.

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

Many of my friends are scientists.

My dream was to be a 'scientist' even before I knew what a scientist did.

I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.

I'm very interested in science.

I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.

From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. He interested me in the laws of falling bodies when I was ten and helped my father equip a basement chemistry lab for me when I was fifteen. I became skilled in the synthesis of selenium halides.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

The word scientist was coined in 1834, as the sciences were becoming professionalized and specialized

At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology.