Change Quote by Donald Cram

I tend to change research direction every few years or so.

— Terence Tao

My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that…

— Wallace Carothers

I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed…

— Leon M. Lederman

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I liked science. I wasn't mathematically oriented, so I became an organic chemist.

— Koji Nakanishi

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our…

— Richard Ernst

I chose biochemistry as my major and graduated after 4 years with an Honours degree in Biochemistry. During that time, I had come to…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics…

— Burton Richter

I started doing experiments - mostly in organic chemistry, because it was so much more interesting - in my mother's laundry at home.

— John Cornforth

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

— Peter Hammill

I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a…

— Freema Agyeman

... chemistry is a trade for people without enough imagination to be physicists.

— Arthur C. Clarke