Science Profession Quotes

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Choosing my career was always based on job satisfaction rather than financial security. I wanted to get a job in science; I enjoyed being a surgeon and I now enjoy being an academic and having a media career.

I was going to be a scientist.

Showing women being scientists on television can have a great impact on who actually goes into science as a profession.

Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.

Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.

The word scientist was coined in 1834, as the sciences were becoming professionalized and specialized

Women scientists' hands are like every other woman's hands.

It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.

There's a danger of some of the best people saying, 'I don't want a career in science.'

Women of my generation who've stayed in science have done it by playing the men at their own game.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.