Ben Miller Quotes

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

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

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

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

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

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

I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.

Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

My scientific qualifications are relatively scant. I like science. I try really hard to educate myself about it, but in the end, if something has to go 'boom,' and it would probably only go 'fwoosh,' I am relatively unconcerned about that, which is a sin, but not, I think, a grave one.

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

An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment.

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

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

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

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

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

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

I'm a science goober.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.

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.

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.