Dean Kamen Quotes

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

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

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

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.

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

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

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

As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.

As for me, I want to have fun while I'm working. Now not everyone thinks physics is fun, but I do. I think experimental physics is especially fun, because not only do you get to solve puzzles about the universe or on Earth, there are really cool toys in the lab.

People have asked me whether I have a science background. No, but I have a great curiosity about the kinds of things we do on 'Discover.'

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

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

The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.

Science is not addressed to poets.

I'm a science goober.

I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.

Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

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

As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.

The lives of those such as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein are plainly of interest in their own right, as well as for the light they shed on the way these great scientists worked. But are 'routine' scientists as fascinating as their science? Here I have my doubts.

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.