Eileen Pollack Quotes

My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.

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

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

I was brought up as a physicist.

From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly.

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

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

There's something called From 'Alchemy to Quarks,' which will teach you everything you have to know, you want to know, about physics.

My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society.

Doing physics is a lot of fun if you like it.

Science is my passion; politics, my duty.

Physics is not a religion. If it were, we’d have a much easier time raising money.

I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.

I am not enough of a mathematician to be able to judge either the well-foundedness or the limits of relativity in physics.

In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

As a kid, I was less interested in the physical tinkering than thinking about what we would now call the physics, as opposed to the engineering.

I've had an ambition to be somebody since I was 13 years old because I wanted to help my family. I wanted to hurry and grow up so I could make enough money to buy my father a big car and my mother a beautiful home with an electric washing machine and all those things she used to see in the newspapers.

You should only go into science if you really have a yearning to make scientific discoveries.

I loved science. I still love it; I'm a nerd in that sense.

I'm a real nerd for science. I love Neil deGrasse Tyson and 'Cosmos' and all that.

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

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a hairdresser.

I always wanted to be an experimental physicist and was attracted to the idea of using continuing advances in technology to carry out fundamental science experiments that could not be done otherwise.

Theoretical physics hardly requires any research funding, so I never felt the need. The overall government and institutional support has been good enough for my work.

So many go into the business just to be famous, not because they are passionate about their craft.