Book Quote by Aldous Huxley

“I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good—good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with…

— Aldous Huxley

Cooking is a subject you can never know enough about. There is always something new to discover.

— Bobby Flay

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

— Nigel Slater

“Science is a collection of successful recipes.”

— Paul Valéry

Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

— Alton Brown

When people think science and cooking, they have no idea that it's not correctly expressed. We're actually applying the scientific method. People think chemistry…

— Ferran Adria

Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

— Paul Valery

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

— Eliza Acton

“Cooking is an art and also science.”

— Mohith Agadi

The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry.…

— Alton Brown