Paul Nurse Quotes

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

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.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.

Science rules!

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

Scientists don't read theology; they don't read philosophy. It doesn't make any difference to what they're doing - for better or worse, it may not be a value judgment, but it's true.

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

I'm very interested in science.

Science is organized knowledge.

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

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

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

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

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

In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.

Science is not addressed to poets.

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

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

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.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'