Whitfield Diffie Quotes

Most kids at 10 or 11 love science, but I never outgrew it.

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

Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.

I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and 'Wonderland' has a lot of science in it. I don't know. They are hard to describe... We are living in a wonderland age of science.

From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.' But on the other hand, movies are instrumental and influential in getting young people interested in science.

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

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china.

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.

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him …

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

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.

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

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

Oh, I assure you, science is anything but boring.