Bill Bryson Quotes

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

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 …

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.

Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate, it's not simply, 'Do you know what DNA is? Or what the Big Bang is?' That's an aspect of science literacy. The biggest part of it is do you know how to think about information that's presented in front of you.

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

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.

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.

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

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

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

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

Carl Sagan spoke fluently between biology and geology and astrophysics and physics. If you move fluently across those boundaries, you realize that science is everywhere; science is not something you can step around or sweep under the rug.

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

At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.

I'm comfortable reading science and dissecting it and discerning the difference between junk science and real science.

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.

I'm, like, not a science person at all.

I'm a firm believer in science.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

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

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.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.