Paul Nurse Quotes

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

I'm very interested in science.

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

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.

I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.

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

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

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

Science is for anyone who wants to explore their world and understand things.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.

The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

Science is always inquiring.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

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

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.