Mario Molina Quotes

Ever since I was little, I've always had a few science experiments going on.

When I was about 9 years old, I became very interested in the human body and diseases. In general, I was just curious about the world around me. I think that any sort of curiosity as a child is a good beginning to a career in science because science, at least to me, is a continuous exploration of the unknown.

Science is always inquiring.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

I love to be a scientist. I've always enjoyed being curious.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

Science should be the most fun job on the planet. You get to ask questions about the world around you and go out and seek the answers. Not to have fun doing that is crazy.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

I was interested in science or, at least, nature from an early age, learning the names of planets, cutting cartoons with facts about animals out of the newspaper and gluing them into a scrapbook, and, with a friend when I was five or six, trying to design a submarine.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Kids are natural scientists.

At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

I've always been interested in science. I used to take watches apart and clocks apart, and there's little screws, and a little this and that, and I found out if I dropped one of them, that thing ain't gonna work.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.