Jim Peebles Quotes

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

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

I loved science. I still love it; I'm a nerd in that sense.

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.

I'm very interested in science.

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

All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.

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.

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

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

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.

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

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

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.'

People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

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

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

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.

Most kids at 10 or 11 love science, but I never outgrew it.

Of course I have other interests, but on the other hand, science is a lifestyle in the sense that it's a combination of profession and hobby.

Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge that it brings. This research is especially important to young people. We all want to know what's going on in the universe.

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

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