Philippe Cousteau Jr. Quotes

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

I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science.

People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.' But on the other hand, movies are instrumental and influential in getting young people interested in science.

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

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

… to develop a plan to promote better science education

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him …

Whatever happens to science in schools, there's something peculiar going on if students don't see it as creative.

I want to really focus on doing this two things I really would like to focus on science and the excitement of science and to help with science. So, that's my intention to focus my efforts there and I hope I will be able to do so.

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

Science class is traditionally taught as science history class - you learn all these facts that someone else discovered, which you need to know, but that's not really an inspiring way to learn science.

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.

We want kids to think that they can think about science. They don't need to just play soccer.

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

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'

You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field.

Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

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

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

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.