Kathleen Rubins Quotes

I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

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

People want to know about what's going on with what's in the universe, what are particles like, what are the basic rules of nature. It's a lot of curiosity out there.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

We do have, and will continue to have an unquenchable curiosity to understand our Solar System.

When we explore other planets, we learn a lot about our own.

I'm a real nerd for science. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson and 'Cosmos' and all that.

Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge that it brings. This research is especially important to young people. We all want to know what's going on in the universe.

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature.

Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.

Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.

I'm very interested in science.

The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.

Science is about unravelling nature.

In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in 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.