Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quotes

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

I've always loved science, but I was never going to make much of a contribution. I'm better off having science as a hobby.

I realized that lab research was the perfect path for me. It allowed me to spend every day figuring out mysteries/puzzles that have to do with what make us alive. What could be a bigger mystery or puzzle?

I'm a science goober.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.

Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

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

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

I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

I was always very curious about what a scientist's life was like when I was young. Of course, when I was young, you didn't have very many opportunities to find out with no web, TV. I was very lucky: I was born in the city of Chicago and went to the University of Chicago where I actually saw things.

I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.

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.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

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

I know that I derive the same kind of spiritual fulfillment from what I do, being a planetary scientist, seeing our exploration of the solar system come to fruition. I get such a spiritual high from it that I don't even see the need for religion.

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.

It is understandable that people want to know how it affects them. But as a scientist, I would hope society would be equally interested in fundamental science.