William Standish Knowles Quotes

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

I was very good in all the maths and sciences.

I was always good at math and science and physics.

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

I am completely obsessed with numbers and data. I have become a scientist in later life.

I've got the brain for systems and a head for figures.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions.

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.

The reason I spend so much of my time doing science is that the whole point of science is to help people resolve conflicting claims by saying: 'Show me the data.'

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.