Thomas Huxley Quotes

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

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

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

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

Science is not addressed to poets.

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

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

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.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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

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.

My dream was to be a 'scientist' even before I knew what a scientist did.

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.

Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes. We just don't vote on quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, why the sky is blue, or anything else.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

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.

I'm very interested in science.

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

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.

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 really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.

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

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.

Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.