Vandana Shiva Quotes About Physics

Quotes about: Physics

• I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system - I was being trained to be the first women in the fast-breeder reactor in India (and was in it when it first went critical) - I didn't feel comfortable with it. So I went into theoretical physics.

  Vandana Shiva

  Theoretical Physics, Environmental, India

  Source: scottlondon.com

• I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the way to learn nature. So my travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology.

  Vandana Shiva

  Way, Taught, Students

  Source: scottlondon.com

• My travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology. They are not really different, except that there is an added dimension of seeing ecological destruction and seeing the very life-support system that makes us survive on this planet being destroyed. That makes me do more than just inquire; it compels me to act and to intervene.

  Vandana Shiva

  Support Systems, Different, Dimensions

  Source: scottlondon.com

• I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be like [Albert] Einstein. He was my hero. I knew no physicists. I knew no scientists. I had nobody around me. And I went to a convent that didn't even have higher mathematics and physics. I taught myself these subjects in order to get into university.

  Vandana Shiva

  Hero, Order, Years

  Source: scottlondon.com

• Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.

  Vandana Shiva

  Thinking, India, Physics

  Source: scottlondon.com

• I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always say to myself, "When I'm 60, I'd like to go back to what I interrupted."

  Vandana Shiva

  Issues, Boredom, Way

  Source: scottlondon.com

• My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didn’t meet anyone who had ever done physics in my life. I grew up in the Himalayan forests. My father was a forest conservator, which meant that if I wasn’t in school I was in the forests with him. That has been very largely responsible for my ecological inclinations.

  Vandana Shiva

  Father, School, Careers

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