Biochemistry Quote by Sydney Brenner

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 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

Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with…

— Anonymous

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

— Richard Ernst

“I started out studying literature, but soon discovered that science was where I actually belonged. The contrast made it all the clearer: in science…

— Hope Jahren

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

The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it.

— Daniel Nathans

To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

— Donald Cram

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

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature…

— Linus Pauling