Rachel Carson Quotes

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.

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 …

Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.

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

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

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

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

Science would lead you to a more interesting life than something else.

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.

Science has promised us truth...It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.

I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true.

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

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

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

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

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, and so I try to find a way to get them interested.

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

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

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.

There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

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

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

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