Chemistry Quote by Gordon Moore

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

— Koji Nakanishi

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be…

— Francis Collins

My father was actually a chemist. He got a degree in chemistry from Stanford.

— Bill Foster

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

When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and…

— E. L. Konigsburg

I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that…

— Peter Carey

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

As a child, I envisioned a career in the hard sciences. In sixth grade, I was buying college chemistry textbooks.

— Reggie Fils-Aime

The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and…

— Marissa Mayer

Be a physical chemist, an organic chemist, an analytical chemist, if you will; but above all be a Chemist.

— Ira Remsen