Jacques Cousteau Quotes

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.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

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.

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

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 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.

The word scientist was coined in 1834, as the sciences were becoming professionalized and specialized

Many of my friends are scientists.

Of course I have other interests, but on the other hand, science is a lifestyle in the sense that it's a combination of profession and hobby.

Of course 'Horizon' had made an impact on me from a young age, but it was also humbling to meet and interview eminent scientists, and hear their high opinion of the series and of the science presented on the BBC more generally.

Science is not finished until it is communicated.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Science is voiceless; it is the scientists who talk.

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

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