Robert H. Grubbs Quotes

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.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

As an eight-year-old, I would listen to stories and biographies of Charles Darwin and Galileo. I also went to wonderful schools and had great teachers who inspired me.

I liked science. It was about the only thing that stayed the same wherever we moved.

I'm very interested in science.

Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

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.

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

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

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.

I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

I'm a science goober.

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

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

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

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.

Ever since I was little, I've always had a few science experiments going on.

I'm a real amateur enthusiast for science.