Serge Haroche Quotes

We take art, and I love all that. But I also like science for some reason. I just like finding out why things happen.

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

I love physics.

I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.

Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.

I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher trying to understand. If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.

The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

Mathematics has a threefold purpose. It must provide an instrument for the study of nature. But this is not all: it has a philosophical purpose, and, I daresay, an aesthetic purpose.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.