Chemistry Quote by Martin Lewis Perl

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

My mom was a chemistry teacher.

— Shriya Saran

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

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

— Reggie Fils-Aime

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 was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

— Geoffrey Wilkinson

My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.

— Yusuf Hamied

Why don't you run along and play with your chemistry set?

— Sirius Black

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 was my college interest. Cooking is about chemistry.

— Lidia Bastianich

Our parents were very generous, and they always encouraged us to find something we enjoyed and really get into it.

— Ellie Simmonds