George E. Brown Jr. Quotes

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

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

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

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

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

I loved science. I still love it; I'm a nerd in that sense.

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

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

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.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

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

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

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.'

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

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.

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

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.

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.