Astronaut Quote by Leroy Chiao

I wanted to pursue chemical engineering because I thought it was the future.

— Mukesh Ambani

I got my undergraduate degree in chemical engineering.

— Leroy Chiao

Four semesters of organic chemistry made a pilot out of me.

— Rick Perry

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

— Koji Nakanishi

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

— Eric Betzig

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

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

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of…

— Jonas Salk

There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I learned by…

— John M. Grunsfeld

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

— Bill Foster

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

I had no idea when I went to college what I'd be doing. I took organic chemistry and did terribly, but I was good…

— Martha Stewart