Lord Kelvin Quotes

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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

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

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

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.

I'm very interested in science.

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.

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

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the 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.

My dream was to be a 'scientist' even before I knew what a scientist did.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

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

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

Science is organized knowledge.

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

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

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

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.

Science rules!

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

I think that we scientists are seeking an understanding of the natural world. We come in various types - chemists and physicists and biologists and such - and we all have the same goal. We are making progress.