Dallas Campbell Quotes

• People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.

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  Thinking, People, Looks

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• There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. It is a thing that's available to everyone.

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  Joy, Understanding, World

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• At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out.

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  Heart, Thinking, Important

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• Newton had a very good description of gravity, back in the day, and then Einstein came along and dug a little bit deeper. Science is like peeling an onion. You go deeper and deeper and deeper, and it doesn't stop. It's not like you will get to a right answer.

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  Onions, Answers, Littles

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• 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."

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  Jobs, Book, Community

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• I've found the thing in life that I adore, which is working in science television. It's just a big adventure, really.

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  Adventure, Things In Life, Television

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• I've always been a bit of a dreamer. I've always loved to look and seek, and explore and find out.

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  Dreamer, Looks, Bits

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• If you go through life and actually get to find out the thing you want to do, you're very lucky.

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  Lucky, Want, Ifs

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• In my lifetime, the population of the world has doubled.

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  Population, World, Lifetime

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• We've only had aircrafts for a hundred years, and yet look at us. So, I've become absolutely fascinated by this strange, bizarre world of airports, air travel and transportation. It's interesting.

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  Airports, Years, Interesting

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• I've never felt scared of flight, ever. It's really weird. I don't know. They stick a gin and tonic in your hands and I just think, "Life is good!"

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  Life Is Good, Thinking, Hands

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• I'd missed science and what it was all about because I was too busy trying to think of other things, when I was at school. I was too busy trying to be James Dean.

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  School, Thinking, Trying

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• I love being in America. I love America. I absolutely adore working in America. I'm at my happiest when I'm in the States.

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  Love Is, America, States

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• Those people who are scared of science or are a bit dismissive of science tend to not really understand what science really is, which is the most beautiful, most elegant and most creative way of looking at the world.

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  Beautiful, People, Creative

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• I was awful at science at school, as a subject, because I didn't have the discipline. But, I was awful at music, as well, and I loved music.

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  School, Discipline, Awful

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

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  World, Way, Scientist

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• The thing I loved, particularly, was the mystery of science and the idea that science doesn't know all the answers, but it is a process of finding out. It's not like science will give you the right answer and science knows everything. I love the mysteries of it.

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  Ideas, Giving, Answers

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• I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

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  Passion, Ideas, Want

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• I was very much the laymen, trying to find stuff out because I'm curious about the world.

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  Trying, Stuff, World

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• Yeah. Science doesn't end. That's the one thing I learned. People think of science as spitting out right answers, and that's it. It's always under review.

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  Thinking, People, Answers

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• Statistically, 2012 was the safest year to travel on a plane, in the history of aviation. Not one major passenger plane crashed. It's pretty amazing. And when you see them being taken apart and you see the work that goes into keeping those things in the air, you think, "Wow!"

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  Taken, Thinking, Air

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• Everything that we know now will be changed in 10 years time.

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  Years, Changed, Knows

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• You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we think of it only as an academic discipline.

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  Thinking, Discipline, Cinema

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