Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

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.

As adults feign disinterest in science - children can grab hold of it to distinguish themselves.

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

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 …

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

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.

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

I'm a science goober.

But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.

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.

To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.

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

I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

I was a terrible science student, and for a long time, I thought I just didn't understand science. It turned out that I didn't understand post-Newtonian science. I could actually understand how people thought scientifically about the world in the past.

We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the way, the how and the why for everything in our experience.

Well, I mean, I'm still a scientist, you know. I think once a scientist, always a scientist.

You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

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.

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