Gregory Benford Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.'

Why do you do science? In this particular case, we don't have a very good reason to be doing this except for the knowledge that it brings. This research is especially important to young people. We all want to know what's going on in the universe.

I'm very interested in science.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

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

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.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

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

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.

I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.

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.

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers.

Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.

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 …