Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

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

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

Scientist

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

People don't realize how many aspects of our lives are touched in one way or another by not just the discoveries, the technological breakthroughs, but the process of science.

There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up - the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.

I knew I wasn't going to be a scientist; I knew that early. When they started talking about dissecting frogs, I knew I wasn't going to be a scientist.

I was a science guy in school, numbers and science and formula: what made things work and how to bring them forward - not what happened.

I always looked at myself as a physicist learning new tricks by looking at nature.

I'm a filmmaker, not a scientist.

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

Great scientific contributions have been techniques.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

I was going to be a scientist.

I love to be a scientist. I've always enjoyed being curious.

A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.

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

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

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.