Charles H. Townes Quotes

My dream was to be a 'scientist' even before I knew what a scientist did.

I was going to be a scientist.

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

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

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

Science is not addressed to poets.

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

I don't know anything about science.

I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.

Of course I have other interests, but on the other hand, science is a lifestyle in the sense that it's a combination of profession and hobby.

I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology.

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

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'm very interested in science.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

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

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

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.

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

As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.

I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.

Science rules!