George Henry Lewes Quotes

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

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third.

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

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

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.

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

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

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.

Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.

I'm very interested in science.

Science is organized knowledge.

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

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

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.