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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

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

— Joshua Lederberg

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

My mom was a chemistry teacher.

— Shriya Saran

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home…

— Rudolph A. Marcus

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

— William Standish Knowles

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

— Eric Betzig

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I…

— Francis Ford Coppola

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

— Koji Nakanishi

At school, I was fanatical about being a scientist.

— Peter Carey

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

— Andrew Sean Greer

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.

— Mark Gatiss