Eric Betzig Quotes

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

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

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

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

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.

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.'

I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

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.

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.

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.

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

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.