Chemistry Quote by Richard Ernst

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

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

— William Standish Knowles

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics…

— Burton Richter

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

I was in AP chemistry in high school, and I really liked it.

— Mena Massoud

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

— Reggie Fils-Aime

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

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

— Koji Nakanishi

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

I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed…

— Leon M. Lederman

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

— John Henry Carver