Alan Stern Quotes

Science is not addressed to poets.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unfortunately, science cannot be reduced to short, catchy phrases. And if this is all that the general public can comprehend, it's no wonder that we spend so much of our time in the interminable debate about belief in God, or lack thereof.

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.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

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

Science rules!

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.

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

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.

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

At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university.

I'm a firm believer in science.

Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.

Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.

Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable

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