Jonah Lehrer Quotes

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.

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

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

I believe in science. We're going to bring back science to the state of Wisconsin.

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

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.

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

I was going to be a scientist.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result of 400 years of science, right? I mean, in the 18th century, in the 18th century you could become an expert on any field of science in an afternoon by going to a library, if you could find the library, right?

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

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

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

Science rules!

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 happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

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

I was always very curious about what a scientist's life was like when I was young. Of course, when I was young, you didn't have very many opportunities to find out with no web, TV. I was very lucky: I was born in the city of Chicago and went to the University of Chicago where I actually saw things.

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.