Chemicals Quote by Sydney Brenner

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

— John Cornforth

Explorations into chemistry were done in our basement, sometimes with friends, and my parents must have had quite a bit of confidence in my…

— Wolfgang Ketterle

I did some chemistry testing - which is one of my favourite things. You go and flirt and see who you fancy and then…

— Charlotte Hope

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

— Richard Ernst

At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

— John Vane

I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.

— Martin Lewis Perl

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 wanted to pursue chemical engineering because I thought it was the future.

— Mukesh Ambani

I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found…

— George Washington Carver

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

Four semesters of organic chemistry made a pilot out of me.

— Rick Perry

I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing…

— Robert B. Laughlin