Chemistry Quote by Leon M. Lederman

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

— Geoffrey Wilkinson

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

— Koji Nakanishi

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 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

Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.

— Eric Betzig

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

— Donald Cram

Yes, from the time I was in junior high school I decided I wanted to be a chemist. I didn't quite know what a…

— Gordon Moore

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

— Reggie Fils-Aime

My mom was a chemistry teacher.

— Shriya Saran

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

— Arthur C. Clarke

I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but charismatic element…

— Harry Kroto