Chemistry Quote by Jack Steinberger

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

My mom was a chemistry teacher.

— Shriya Saran

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 studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end,…

— Jack Steinberger

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

— Bill Foster

My mother ended up getting a Ph.D. of her own, in chemistry, and eventually became a tenured professor.

— Celeste Ng

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before…

— Kenneth G. Wilson

I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find.…

— Richard J. Roberts

I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

— Patricia Cornwell

I was studying chemistry, and this is a physically hard job because you are in the laboratory, you work hard, and you come home…

— Joachim Sauer

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

My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.

— Geoffrey Wilkinson