Ben Miller Quotes

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.

I'm very interested in science.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

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

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.

When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.

I was going to be a scientist.

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

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

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

I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.

I just wanted to be a scientist.

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.

I don't know anything about science.

At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.

Many of my friends are scientists.

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

I'm not a scientist.

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

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.