Benzene Quote by Stephanie Kwolek

“During my stay in London I resided for a considerable time in Clapham Road in the neighbourhood of Clapham Common... One fine summer evening…

— August Kekule

This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.

— Robert Huber

[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.

— Edward Teller

I started doing experiments - mostly in organic chemistry, because it was so much more interesting - in my mother's laundry at home.

— John Cornforth

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals…

— Sydney Brenner

I wanted to do a project that was seamless and had all the ingredients from start to finish, from conception to mixing and mastering.

— Philip Bailey

I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to…

— John Charles Polanyi

I was very much taken with carbon fibers because they seemed like the perfect medium to explore transport studies in carbon-based systems.

— Mildred Dresselhaus

[At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very…

— Stephanie Kwolek

When, as an undergraduate, I began experiments on these slime molds in 1940, only one other person, Kenneth Raper, was working on them at…

— John Tyler Bonner

I turned out to be a very good cement-mixer.

— Stuart Broad

I did a lot of good work for the rest of the forty years... science is an incremental thing. Everything builds on everything else,…

— Gustav Nossal