Complex systems Quote by Scott Woolley

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

— William Standish Knowles

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

— Reggie Fils-Aime

“Though he continued to take classes here and there in the sciences and in business, Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature…

— Raymond Carver

I was taking chemical engineering. But I went into the army after that. When I came out of the army, I was a different…

— Mose Allison

Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American…

— Peter Agre

My father was actually a chemist. He got a degree in chemistry from Stanford.

— Bill Foster

His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and…

— Barbara Mikulski

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After…

— Al Franken

The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had…

— Paul D. Boyer

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

— Lou Henry Hoover

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in…

— Richard Ernst