I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.
I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.
It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.
We asked ourselves and the world to base decisions on good science and I really believe the United States can be the leader in delivering that message to our international trading partners.
As I have tried to show science in producing the airplane and the wireless has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.
A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat but not completely because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations how one wants to proportion these things.
English once accepted as an international language is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science.
I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.
The thing that interests me least about the radio business is the radio business. But I've had to learn a little bit about it. It's not rocket science: You get ratings that's good.
There's a lot of interesting words nomenclatures in science.
I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
So fantasy was fine early on and when I discovered science fiction I was very happy with it because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural really that I would take that interest.
Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.
I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting more exotic more wild and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach where information is the highest goal.
Learn about the world the way it works any kind of science and anthropology it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea even more than the idea of God I think.
What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system massive funding for science and technology a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality race and language. I have been doubly lucky being accepted as a member of both.
If I can get some student interested in science if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program then my job's been done.
I didn't mind studying. Obviously math and the physical science subjects interested me more than some of the more artistic subjects but I think I was a pretty good student.
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology so in that way fantasy is easier.
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
I was always very interested in science and I knew that for me science was a better long-term career than tennis.
When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'