Simone Weil Quotes

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

Of course 'Horizon' had made an impact on me from a young age, but it was also humbling to meet and interview eminent scientists, and hear their high opinion of the series and of the science presented on the BBC more generally.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.

If there are lessons to be drawn from the sciences, then that should be the concern of everyone, including scientists to the extent that they can make a contribution.

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.

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

I was going to be a scientist.

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.

Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.

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

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

Science is not addressed to poets.

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.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.

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

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.

Further, science is a collaborative effort.

I just wanted to be a scientist.

Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.

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.

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.