Bruno Rossi Quotes

I've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby.

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

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

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

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

I am only a physicist with nothing material to show for my labours. I have never even seen the ionosphere, although I have worked on the subject for thirty years. That does show how lucky people can be. If there had been no ionosphere I would not have been standing here this morning.

The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea that he pursues; he no longer hears the cries of the animals, no longer sees the flowing blood, he sees only his idea: organisms that hide from him problems that he wants to discover. He doesn't feel that he is in a horrible carnage; under the influence of a scientific idea, he pursues with delight a nervous filament inside stinking and livid flesh that for any other person would be an object of disgust and horror.

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

I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say that's completely opposite of the truth.

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.

Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

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.

My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myself about it, but in the end, if something has to go 'boom,' and it would probably only go 'fwoosh,' I am relatively unconcerned about that, which is a sin, but not, I think, a grave one.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

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.

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

Science is among the most profoundly human of our activities. Far from being subsumed by the dehumanising effects of technology, science, in fact, remains our last stand against it.

I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.