Charles Augustin de Coulomb Quotes

A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.

I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more.

I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers.

We didn't care about salaries and having a nice car. We just cared about science and were really ambitious.

I discovered how science is truly a universal language, one that forges new connections among individuals and opens the mind to ideas that go far beyond the classroom.

There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

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

I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.

One of my secret nerdy things is that I love education.

As a child, I envisioned a career in the hard sciences. In sixth grade, I was buying college chemistry textbooks.

Since I come from an educated background, I love to study.

I'm not studious at all. I'm really far from that. I have been better at everything else. I find school terribly tiresome and boring.

It's a blessing in a scientific career - the almost daily thrill of scientific discovery.

The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.

Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.

Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce.

In the temple of science are many mansions ... and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

What I know bores me.