Frederick Sanger Quotes

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.' But on the other hand, movies are instrumental and influential in getting young people interested in science.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him …

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

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

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and 'Wonderland' has a lot of science in it. I don't know. They are hard to describe... We are living in a wonderland age of science.

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

From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.