Books Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

— Donald Cram

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’ve brought scientific thinking to literature. There’s been very little gratitude for this.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“I started out studying literature, but soon discovered that science was where I actually belonged. The contrast made it all the clearer: in science…

— Hope Jahren

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

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

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern…

— Kenichi Fukui

If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a…

— Thomas Jefferson

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

— Aaron Klug

“Thus, for those of us who make only a brief study of chemistry, the benefits to be expected are of an indirect nature. Increased…

— Horace G. Deming

I had a great chemistry teacher and found it really interesting to learn how things are made up and how they work.

— Kelli Berglund