Franchesca Ramsey Quotes

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

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

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

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.

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

I was a terrible science student, so I could never be a scientist; my mind doesn't work that way. But I've learned to love the stories around science, and I have so much respect and fascination for the people who can make discoveries and find applications. There's a lot of drama there.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

It is my idea that the public needs to be better educated about the nature of scientific inquiry and how the scientific process works. I firmly believe that this is the only effective way forward to combat the widespread distrust in facts and science.

I'm not a scientist.

At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university.

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

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

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

Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.

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

When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office.

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

I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.

I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.

We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.

Science is not addressed to poets.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.