Newt Gingrich Quotes

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.

Anything that promotes a kernel of science, even though it's exaggerated and hyped by Hollywood, I think is a step forward. We in the ivory tower ultimately have to realize that in some sense we have to sing for our supper.

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.

I'd love to present a popular science programme because it's something I feel very passionate about.

Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

After I had this idea to be Bill Nye the Science Guy, I wore straight ties the first couple times, and then I got this thing going and I started wearing bow ties.

One of the best and most responsible things a scientist can do is to write for the popular press.

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.

Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you've got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school on, science is taught in a very dry manner, which isn't as potent.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people.

We have to change the way people look at scientists. Today, they are the nerds, the geeks. Instead, we want some of the cool kids to say, 'Hey, this is all right.'

Bill Nye the Science Guy' was awesome.

We need to make science cool again.

With science becoming far more accessible to all of us, I've become a pretty avid reader and devourer of it. One of the objectives that I had working with Fringe was to get more people talking about it because it's such fun.

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.

Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.