Rainer Weiss Quotes

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.

What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.

I'm very interested in science.

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

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.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

despite its apparent impracticality, the Administration values discovery-oriented science, and aims to continue to support the grand quest for knowledge about the universe at the largest and smallest scales.

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.

You should only go into science if you really have a yearning to make scientific discoveries.

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

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

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 the topography of ignorance.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

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

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

Science is organized knowledge.