Case Quote by Rainer Weiss

The main reason why people should care about research in fundamental physics is the same reason they care about astronomy and cosmology. People, children,…

— David Gross

Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it

— Richard P. Feynman

Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might…

— Mae Jemison

To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

— Isaac Asimov

I want to get across that science is something that we all have ownership of and we can all take an interest in. We…

— Ben Miller

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

— Reggie Watts

I love learning about the science that governs the universe around us and want to share the delight of discovering how things work and…

— Randall Munroe

If we always thought like that, why would we study physics, why would we think of cosmology, why would we do any kind of…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make…

— Jack W. Szostak

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

— Brian Andreas

I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is…

— Brian Schmidt

We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science,…

— Lisa Randall