Science Studies Quotes

For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.

People Propose, Science Studies, Technology Conforms.

I studied physics at university, and I'm still a sucker for an experiment or scientific theory.

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means.

One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.