Sheldon Lee Glashow Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

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

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.

Science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.

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.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

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

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

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 like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

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.'

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.

I just wanted to be a scientist.

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

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.