Paul Pierce Quotes

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

I never wanted to be a scientist.

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

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

I'm very interested in science.

I was going to be a scientist.

I just wanted to be a scientist.

At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.

Many of my friends are scientists.

At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university.

Doing physics is a lot of fun if you like it.

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

Science demands patience.

Experimenters are the shock troops of science.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress.

Something my father dearly loved is the scientific method, and it's founded in this element of humility. The idea is that you pursue the truth wherever it goes; you need to evidence, and you can - you see if it's repeatable.

My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out what I believe.

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.

Science isn't just for guys in lab coats, you know? It's for anybody who wants to do a good job of understanding and investigating the world.

A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.

I'm a firm believer in science.

I'm a scientist by nature and not by trade.

Deep down inside, I'm a science geek.

I studied physics at university, and I'm still a sucker for an experiment or scientific theory.