Avid Quote by Vine Deloria Jr

Most of the time, when I get an idea that hinges on some science 'thing,' it will have been because of something I read…

— Alastair Reynolds

It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It…

— 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

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

— George E. Brown, Jr

I wasn't naturally a scientist, but I was always fascinated by how the world worked and why things were the way they were.

— Dallas Campbell

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

— Paul Nurse

“Science of the kind I criticize tends to assert that everything is explicable, that whatever has not been explained will be explained--and, furthermore, by…

— Marilynne Robinson

One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being…

— Thabo Mbeki

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

— Albertus Magnus

I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.

— Andrew Solomon

Tracing the beginnings of the interwoven stories of science can be arbitrary, as beginnings are so often lost in the mists of time.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of my world.

— Karl Iagnemma