Sarah Hall Quotes

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.

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

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology.

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; it's a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology 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'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

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

Science is not addressed to poets.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Science rules!

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.

Science to me is sufficiently weird and interesting, and stranger than fiction.

From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. He interested me in the laws of falling bodies when I was ten and helped my father equip a basement chemistry lab for me when I was fifteen. I became skilled in the synthesis of selenium halides.

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.