Paul Valery Quotes

I'm very interested in science.

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.

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

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

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

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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

Experience by itself is not science.

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

People are saying I don't need science, I have everything, but everything is based on science.

I don't know anything about science.

Just as houses are made of stone, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house, and a collection of facts is not necessarily science

My dream was to be a 'scientist' even before I knew what a scientist did.

I'm a firm believer in science.

Science demands patience.

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

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.

When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.

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.

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

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.

Science is not addressed to poets.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.