Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

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

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

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

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

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

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.

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. He interested me in the laws of falling bodies when I was ten and helped my father equip a basement chemistry lab for me when I was fifteen. I became skilled in the synthesis of selenium halides.

I'm not a scientist or a mathematician.

My father was a physicist, while I am a biogeochemist. I live to study plants, and he has never had more than a generic interest in biology.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

I have emphasized experiments more than theory. Of course, we need some theory when thinking of soft matter.

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature.

I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology.

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

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

I really do think that science has an internal structure, and it makes sense, and we can test it.

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.

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

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject.

When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'