Ahmed Zewail Quotes

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.

Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level.

Our security and independence require that more young people devote themselves to science and research.

Only by ignorance is science threatened.

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

My trademark at CNN was really asking insightful questions and making sure people are understanding the connections in humanity, and I think that is the core of education.

People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.' But on the other hand, movies are instrumental and influential in getting young people interested in science.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science.

We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

We are in a war on ignorance, a war on scientific ignorance.

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that, by the time they leave school, every boy and girl should know how much they don’t know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it

Constant and frequent questioning is the first key to wisdom … For through doubting we are led to inquire, and by inquiry we perceive the truth.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.