Rudolph A. Marcus Quotes

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

I'm a real amateur enthusiast for science.

From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.

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

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

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!

To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.

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

I don't know anything about science.

At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university.

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

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.

When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.

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.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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.

Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

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

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

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 believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

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