Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

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

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

I thought I should study physics because it's fundamental to all science.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

Science is always inquiring.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

The thing I love about science is finding out something new and different.

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.