Bernard Beckett Quotes

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

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

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

Science rules!

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.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

Science is organized knowledge.

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

Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.

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

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

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

I like to believe that science is becoming mainstream. It should have never been something that sort of geeky people do and no one else thinks about. Whether or not, it will always be what geeky people do. It should, as a minimum, be what everybody thinks about because science is all around us.

Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a believer. So I don't think we should equate science with religion. But, that science is progressively playing a more and more important part in the life of every individual is obvious.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

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.

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

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.

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

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.