Joseph DeRisi Quotes

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.

For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your parents.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.

Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.

Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

I went to public school up until junior high.

Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

I was really young when I was working on 'Freaks and Geeks.' In a lot of ways, that was the experience that informed a lot of what I've become, and I feel like every experience I have is in some way or another an extension of something that started there.

They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.

I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me. I got excited at university.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.

I was a terrible science student, and for a long time, I thought I just didn't understand science. It turned out that I didn't understand post-Newtonian science. I could actually understand how people thought scientifically about the world in the past.

Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.

I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.

I have a nostalgia for the years I was growing up and experiencing new things for the first time - so the late '80s and early '90s are always fascinating to me. Those were the times that I was being informed about a lot of my tastes, and so the memories are fused with a lot of emotion.