Ellen Ochoa Quotes

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

Science rules!

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

I'm a real amateur enthusiast for science.

At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.

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.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

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.

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

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

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

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

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

I don't know anything about science.

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.

I was never exposed as a kid to any real science. I read the occasional popular science book, and I loved Mechanics Illustrated, which had a lot of pseudo-science in it: It wasn't until I got to college that I began to appreciate what physics is all about, and that was really an accident also.

I'm a firm believer in science.

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

I'm very interested in science.

When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.