Chemistry Quote by John Cornforth

My mom was a chemistry teacher.

— Shriya Saran

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals…

— Sydney Brenner

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

At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

— John Vane

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

— Koji Nakanishi

Explorations into chemistry were done in our basement, sometimes with friends, and my parents must have had quite a bit of confidence in my…

— Wolfgang Ketterle

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

— George E. Brown, Jr

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

— Geoffrey Wilkinson

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

— Richard Ernst

I like to experiment a lot and invent things.

— Kathy Ireland

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

— Jack Steinberger

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

— Joseph Rotblat