Biographies Quote by Charles Darwin

In my junior year, I studied geology on Saturday mornings at the Museum of Natural History. Mineralogy has always been a major interest.

— Janet Yellen

It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My grandpa was a geologist, and I always had this fascination with not only earth sciences but ancient history.

— Cole Sprouse

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to…

— Anonymous

One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific training, yet…

— Nikola Tesla

My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the…

— Dudley R. Herschbach

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

— George E. Brown, Jr

The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry,…

— Anonymous

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

— Aaron Klug

I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

— Jane Siberry

I studied archaeology.

— Cole Sprouse

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

— Joseph Rotblat