Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Quotes

I'm very interested in science.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

To me, what makes physics physics is that experiment is intimately connected to theory. It's one whole.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

It is not observation but theory that led me to this result that experience has confirmed afterwards.

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

I think I always wanted to go into physics. What always fascinated me about science was the desire to understand what underlies it all, and I think physics is basically the study of that.

I thought I should study physics because it's fundamental to all science.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Science demands patience.

Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.

Science is always inquiring.

Science is organized knowledge.

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

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

Science is facts.

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Science is a self-sufficient activity.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.