David Sedaris Quotes

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and 'Wonderland' has a lot of science in it. I don't know. They are hard to describe... We are living in a wonderland age of science.

Art is science in the flesh.

People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.' But on the other hand, movies are instrumental and influential in getting young people interested in science.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

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.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

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

I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another.

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

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

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

To me, it's all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge.

I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious.

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.