Sam Trammell Quotes

I wanted to be an astronomer until I discovered I'm terrible at math.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see anything post that happening without that.

I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.

I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

When I was in my teens, Yehudi Menuhin, who was at work on his project 'The Music of Man,' introduced me to the great astronomer Carl Sagan. It was Sagan who first opened my eyes to the magnitude of the universe, and essentially to the notion of 'music of the spheres.'

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

I'm a real nerd for science. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson and 'Cosmos' and all that.

I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe.

I was already studying physics, but Sputnik steered me toward space, cosmology, the Big Bang, and elementary particles.

I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.

It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormous tapestry of existence. Where did our universe come from? How special is our world, and how special are we? We allocate tens of billions of dollars annually to NASA, NSF and academia in search of the answers.

People want to know about what's going on with what's in the universe, what are particles like, what are the basic rules of nature. It's a lot of curiosity out there.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

We do have, and will continue to have an unquenchable curiosity to understand our Solar System.

… it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

I'm a person who's very interested in science and the universe and quantum physics and astrophysics.

The natural phenomenon of the universe is so mind-blowing, but you have to know about it. You have to be curious. You've got to find it on your own. If you're lucky, you do.

As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns.

I was never good at math.

I dreamt of being an astronomer; I had a series of 'How and Why' books on the planets and the stars. At that stage, there were only 14 galaxies; now there are multiverses, dark matter, the nano-microscopic world of the interior of atomic structure.