Peter Graves Quotes

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

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

I'm very interested in science.

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

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

I was always very curious about what a scientist's life was like when I was young. Of course, when I was young, you didn't have very many opportunities to find out with no web, TV. I was very lucky: I was born in the city of Chicago and went to the University of Chicago where I actually saw things.

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science—how a life-form works, how this works, how that works. ... You have to have a natural curiosity for that.

I'm a real amateur enthusiast for science.

I guess it's inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists.

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

Of course I have other interests, but on the other hand, science is a lifestyle in the sense that it's a combination of profession and hobby.

I think people love fundamental science.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by 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 science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

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

I grew up thinking that a research scientist was a natural thing to be.

Science is not addressed to poets.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

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

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.