Steven Chu Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm a real amateur enthusiast for science.

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

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.

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

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

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

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

You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

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.

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.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

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

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

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

I'm very interested in science.

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

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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

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

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