Bent Quote by Gertrude B. Elion

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody…

— Gertrude B. Elion

I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.

— Renato Dulbecco

Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

My father happened to be a doctor, and though I loved and idealized him privately, professionally I never had any use for him or…

— Rudolph Valentino

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast…

— David Eagleman

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

— Michael P. Anderson

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

— Peter Hammill

I'm, like, not a science person at all.

— Franchesca Ramsey

“Science itself caused half the problems it was trying to solve. "Progress" was Mother Earth's ultimate malignancy.”

— Dan Brown

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

— Richard P. Feynman

I'm not a scientist, I was not a good science student, I felt effectively alienated from science throughout my young life, and it was…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson