Peter Carey Quotes

I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

I don't know anything about science.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

Science rules!

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

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

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

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university.

Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.

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.

I'm very interested in science.

When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.

I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

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

Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.

I was going to be a scientist.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

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

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.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

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