Robert Sapolsky Quotes

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.

I'm not that cool; I'm just a bookworm.

Scientists don't like to be called salesmen.

I am not an egghead in the least.

I'm an educated individual.

I am pretty much a nerd, and I love to read.

I'm a nerdy guy who likes to read a lot.

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.

It's no fun to be a bluestocking in a family of jockstraps.

I was a super nerd in school.

My parents were marvelously educated people.

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

Usually, nerds on TV are completely stereotypical, like Urkel, or they're not really so nerdy.

A lot of people think I must be weird because of the films I've done. I get that.

I am a nerd among nerds.

I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.

He was a walking library.

I'm first and foremost a scientist.

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

Being a nerd is not always a bad thing. It's actually cool to be a nerd.