Ahmed Zewail Quotes

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology.

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.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

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

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

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

I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.

Science is not addressed to poets.

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

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.

From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. He interested me in the laws of falling bodies when I was ten and helped my father equip a basement chemistry lab for me when I was fifteen. I became skilled in the synthesis of selenium halides.

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

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

I'm very interested in science.

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

Science is organized knowledge.

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