Michael P. Anderson Quotes

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

I'm very interested in science.

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

Science is not addressed to poets.

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.

Of course I have other interests, but on the other hand, science is a lifestyle in the sense that it's a combination of profession and hobby.

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

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.

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.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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

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

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

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

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

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

People have asked me whether I have a science background. No, but I have a great curiosity about the kinds of things we do on 'Discover.'

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

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

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

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.