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I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books. -- Anthony Doerr
I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books. -- Mark Haddon
If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women. -- Lisa Randall
My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw it, and they spent a lot of time at bookstores, combing the remainder tables for science books to buy for me. I had one of the biggest libraries of any kid in school, built on books that cost 50 cents or a dollar. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that I read avidly. -- David Gross
There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style. -- David Gelernter
I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma. -- Augusten Burroughs
When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong. -- Diane Ravitch
I'm a huge science fan; I read a lot of science books. But I'm not a scientist, my interest in science is I love the facts, but I like to interpret those facts. They become the raw materials for stories and paintings and things. -- Dave McKean
When I was acting, as a hobby, I would devour popular science books and keep up-to-date about what was going on in the science community. And then, suddenly my hobby became my job. I didn't one day say, "I'm not acting. I'm now going to be a science person." -- Dallas Campbell
I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap. -- Robert Ballard
Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. -- Robert Ballard
I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins, Matt Ridley and Daniel Dennett. I also spent a year working on a fellowship in a research centre - the Allan Wilson Centre - where I got a hands-on look at their work sequencing DNA. -- Bernard Beckett
I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction. -- Mayim Bialik
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. -- Thomas Huxley
Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness. -- Tom DeLonge
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. -- Elizabeth Moon
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.' -- Bill Gates
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. -- Barbara Tuchman
I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction. -- Connie Willis
When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction. -- Brandon Sanderson
In general, I write for ages 12 and up - although I've received emails from readers between the ages of seven and seventy. My books are science fiction. -- Marie Lu
I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult. -- Matt Groening
I loved reading all kinds of books, but I particularly loved books like 'Red Planet' by Robert Heinlein, which very few people read anymore but is a wonderful science fiction story. -- Rebecca Stead
I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds. -- David S. Goyer
First Light' has gotten a reputation as a kind of cult classic about science. I never really intended it to be read as a science book, but books, like children, have a way of choosing their own friends. -- Richard Preston
As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy. -- Gail Carriger
People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science. -- John Polkinghorne
Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful. -- Patricia Briggs
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. -- Barbara Tuchman
Science books are letters from God, telling how He runs His universe. -- Toyohiko Kagawa
For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science. -- Dennis Ritchie
I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it. -- Christopher Paolini
When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on. -- John Darnielle
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art. -- Russell Lynes
You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written. -- Samuel Johnson
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books. -- Ray Bradbury
Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live. -- Salman Rushdie
Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time. -- Leon M. Lederman
I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means -- Clifford Geertz
I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means. -- Clifford Geertz
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events. -- Samuel Johnson
It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books. -- David S. Goyer
I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff. -- Jesse L. Martin
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them. -- Samuel Johnson
As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out of reach of ordinary men. -- John Wesley

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