I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is…

I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. The process of being a writer is much more interior…

— Hanya Yanagihara

“Any account of science which does not explicitly describe it as something we believe in is essentially incomplete and a false pretense. It amounts…

— Richard Rhodes

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

— Marie Curie

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting…

— Melanie Phillips

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise...

— Paul Feyerabend

My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the…

— Percy Williams Bridgman

My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles… That I have published so little is due to this same…

— Albert Einstein

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

— Albert Einstein

“She could not remember ever being truly happy in her adult life; her years with her mother had been built up devotedly around small…

— Shirley Jackson

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

— Randi Weingarten

“I have spent most of my adult life in a ghetto among countless other outsiders who have also learned how to talk through the…

— Jamake Highwater

I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in…

— Neil Armstrong

I spent close to a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA and have spent most of my adult life collecting intelligence and…

— Will Hurd

I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east…

— Alice Munro