Book Quote by Wallace Carothers

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

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 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

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

— Reggie Fils-Aime

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

— Geoffrey Wilkinson

Chemistry was my college interest. Cooking is about chemistry.

— Lidia Bastianich

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

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

— William Standish Knowles

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

Yes, from the time I was in junior high school I decided I wanted to be a chemist. I didn't quite know what a…

— Gordon Moore

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

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics…

— Burton Richter