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Steve Martin
(14 Aug 1945 - )
American comedian, actor and writer whose career began as a TV writer, which evolved through stand-up comedian to acting in comedy movies, some of which he wrote himself.
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Science Quotes by Steve Martin (3 quotes)
I continued to pursue my studies and half believed I might try for a doctorate in philosophy and become a teacher, as teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
— Steve Martin
In Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life (2007), 101.
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
— Steve Martin
As collected, without citation, in Lilless McPherson Shilling and Linda K. Fuller (eds.), Dictionary of Quotations in Communications (), 279.
I transferred to … UCLA, … and I took several courses there. One was an acting class…; another was a course in television writing, which seemed practical. I also continued my studies in philosophy. I had done pretty well in symbolic logic at Long Beach, so I signed up for Advanced Symbolic Logic at my new school. Saying that I was studying Advanced Symbolic Logic at UCLA had a nice ring; what had been nerdy in high school now had mystique. However, I went to class the first day and discovered that UCLA used a different set of symbols from those I had learned at Long Beach. To catch
up, I added a class in Logic 101, which meant I was studying beginning logic and advanced logic at the same time. I was overwhelmed, and shocked to find that I couldn’t keep up. I had reached my math limit as well as my philosophy limit. I abruptly changed my major to theater and, free from the workload of my logic classes…. I realized that I was now investing in no other future but show business.
— Steve Martin
In Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life (2007), 103.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
