Academic Quote by Paul Berg

I chose a career in medicine because I wanted a tangible skill with which to serve people. And so my role as a physician…

— Kent Brantly

My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.

— Tu Youyou

After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to…

— Vivek Wadhwa

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many…

— J. G. Ballard

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

— Mukesh Ambani

I chose biochemistry as my major and graduated after 4 years with an Honours degree in Biochemistry. During that time, I had come to…

— Elizabeth Blackburn

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and…

— K. Eric Drexler

I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.

— Ieva Laguna

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

I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I…

— Eric Kandel

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be…

— Francis Collins

Choosing my career was always based on job satisfaction rather than financial security. I wanted to get a job in science; I enjoyed being…

— Alice Roberts