Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.

Usually girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher Ms. Paz Jensen made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.

The modern mind tends to be more and more critical and analytical in spirit hence it must devise for itself an engine of expression which is logically defensible at every point and which tends to correspond to the rigorous spirit of modern science.

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.

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you or it becomes this incredible potion.

The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

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.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.