Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I studied history and English in college, got a master's in writing, but I was always sort of an autodidact in science. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“A scientist’s work is determined by two things: his interests and those of his time. Everything has led to this.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I have always felt that it's a little artificial to divide the sciences and the arts on college campuses. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
'Research,' for me, is a big word that encompasses a lot of different activities, all of them based around curiosity. Research is… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
My mom was a high school science teacher for decades. She just never made it feel like we had to choose between… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“It is not so much the science of snow for me, anymore. I’d rather just look at it. The light, the way… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“he moved neither forward nor backward in time, but merely endured variations of the same day over and over. Maybe he was the one… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“Open your eyes, the Frenchman on the radio used to say, and see what you can with them before they close forever.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“Just when we think we have a system, ...the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost. Just when we… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“An hour passed and another and then, like a glass of water overfilled - the meniscus inverting, going convex, gravity pulling at the edges,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“For dinner, he orders wild boar cooked with fresh mushrooms. And a full bottle of Bordeaux. Especially during wartime, such things remain important. They… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“Do you know what happens, Etienne,” says Madame Manec from the other side of the kitchen, “when you drop a frog in a pot… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“You ever hope for something so much? So much you can't sleep, so much your skull hurts? But the thing is, you don't even… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“Hope was a sunrise, a friend in the alley, a whisper in an empty corridor.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“silent desperation of everything they never said - gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
“She is in charge of everything, but no one knows. It is a tremendous burden, she says, to be responsible for every little thing,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share
