Books Quote by Richard J. Roberts

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

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

— Eric Betzig

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

— William Standish Knowles

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

— Geoffrey Wilkinson

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

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

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 learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading…

— Robert Huber

Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I discovered the…

— Allen W. Wood

I had a great chemistry teacher and found it really interesting to learn how things are made up and how they work.

— Kelli Berglund

My best subjects were chemistry and math.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's…

— Kurt Vonnegut