Science Quotes by Yann Martel

“…nature as a whole was an exceptionally fine illustration of science.”

— Yann Martel

To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.

— Yann Martel

science can only take you so far and then you have to leap

— Yann Martel

“Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any…

— Yann Martel

“Reason is my prophet and it tells me that as a watch stops, so we die. It’s the end. If the watch…

— Yann Martel

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to…

— Yann Martel

“If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? [...] Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is…

— Yann Martel

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied…

— Yann Martel

“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex,…

— Yann Martel

“There are no grounds for going beyond a scientific explanation of reality and no sound reason for believing anything but our sense…

— Yann Martel

I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to…

— Yann Martel

“A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and…

— Yann Martel

“The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment. A good-natured smile is forever on its lips...I…

— Yann Martel