Peter Hammill Quotes

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

There is nothing inherently wrong 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.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

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.

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

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

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

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

I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

I felt I had had enough of politicians and government upheavals …. Suddenly I was enveloped in the feeling that only science is lasting.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

I'm a real amateur enthusiast for science.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

I would like people to appreciate science in the same way they appreciate the arts.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

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.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

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