Mario Molina Quotes

As an eight-year-old, I would listen to stories and biographies of Charles Darwin and Galileo. I also went to wonderful schools and had great teachers who inspired me.

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

Once you open the toy box they will play with the toys

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

When I was 11 years old, my mother bought me one of those chemistry sets, and I stayed with it.

As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed a great interest in a number of different things from how to build a street hot rod from the ground up to quantum mechanics, and those two different kinds of mechanics, and it was really in the sciences, quantum mechanics, molecular biology, I would begin looking at these things looking for ideas, but in fact you don't read it for ideas you read it for curiosity and interest in the subject.

I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

People who look for the first time through a microscope say, 'Now I see this, and then I see that,' and even a skilled observer can be fooled. On these observations I have spent more time than many will believe, but I have done them with joy, and I have taken no notice of those who have said, 'Why take so much trouble,' and, 'What good is it?'

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.

When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read.

By about age 12, I would prefer to stay up and watch the stars than go to sleep. I started learning. I started going to the library and reading. But it was initially just watching the stars from my bedroom that I really did. There was just nothing as interesting in my life as watching the stars every night.

The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass.

I believe a child's most important job is to explore the world around them through play.

Experiencing lots of different things is what being a kid is all about, and it helps make the most of their childhood.

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.

Neither Adam or I are scientists, we're not engineers or anything of the sort. We just have a lot of fun and the thing is, fun for us happens to involve science and satisfying our curiosity.

I like to learn. That's an art and a science.

As soon as I could ride a bike... I was always riding over to the Museum of Science and Industry to explore. It's where I first began to develop a fascination with machines and scientific principles.

I went to basic school for 10 years, and then I went to college.

Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.

I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.