Children Quote by Michio Kaku

When I was growing up, I wanted passionately to be a physicist.

— Eileen Pollack

I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be…

— Vandana Shiva

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

— James Rothman

From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite…

— George Washington Carver

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from…

— Michael P. Anderson

I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.

— Geoffrey West

Becoming a scientist is a long journey, and at every step, I found projects that were exciting, motivating me to continue. My path was…

— Carrie Nugent

I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' series was on television,…

— Alastair Reynolds

My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.

— Yuri Milner

When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein, and the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

— Joseph Rotblat

When I first went to college, I went into physics, and my goal was to help perfect nuclear fusion so I could solve the…

— David Grinspoon