Michael Brown Quotes

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.

I'm very interested in science.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

What's interesting about science is that we're constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It's amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being - without a doubt.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

I loved everything. I loved sciences and I loved humanities. But ultimately, I felt that in the humanities, you know, you're writing about things that already exist. But in the sciences, you're discovering things that no one has known before. Ultimately I chose psychology because it seemed to combine science with things that I liked to think about.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with only a forlorn hope that under one of them was the gem we were seeking. Now we have the sieve, the minds, the hands, the time, and, particularly, the dedication to find those gems-no matter in which favorite hiding place the children of distant worlds have placed them.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers.

Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and conviction - in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.

For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.

Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Science is always inquiring.

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.