Mary Roach Quotes

To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.

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

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

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by 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.

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

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

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

I'm a real amateur enthusiast for science.

Most kids at 10 or 11 love science, but I never outgrew it.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.

I think people love fundamental science.

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

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.

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

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.

People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.' But on the other hand, movies are instrumental and influential in getting young people interested in science.