Hanya Yanagihara Quotes

I was going to be a scientist.

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.

At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

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.

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

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

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

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.

Science is not addressed to poets.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

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.

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

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

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

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

Science rules!

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

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

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

I just wanted to be a scientist.