Andrea Barrett Quotes

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.

I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.

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.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.

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

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.

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

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

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.

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.

I'm very interested in science.

Science is organized knowledge.

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

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated.

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

Science is not addressed to poets.

As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.

Science rules!

A lot of scientists hate writing. Most scientists love being in the lab and doing the work and when the work is done, they are finished.