Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Quotes

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

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

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

My father was a physicist, while I am a biogeochemist. I live to study plants, and he has never had more than a generic interest in biology.

I was useless at science. I was never going to be an astrophysicist.

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

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

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

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

As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.

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

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.

From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. He interested me in the laws of falling bodies when I was ten and helped my father equip a basement chemistry lab for me when I was fifteen. I became skilled in the synthesis of selenium halides.

In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

Studying physics, mathematics, and chemistry is worshipping God.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

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

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.

I'm very interested in science.

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.