John Ruskin Quotes

I'm very interested in science.

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

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.

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Many of my friends are scientists.

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

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.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

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.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

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.