25 Chemist Quotes for You to Enjoy

When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the structure of DNA molecules, something which I would never have dreamed of doing before I started. Alfred Hershey

My mom is an experimental chemist and physicist, so she is a cut-and-dried, nuts-and-bolts kind of woman, and my dad is a theoretical chemist, so we were definitely raised with his philosophical point of view: imaginary numbers and dimensions beyond our own. That's the kind of thing we would talk about. Andrew Sean Greer

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

Father Degree Chemistry He Got Chemist Stanford Actually

What I was concerned with was life: what are the major features that are common to all living organisms that subtly define life. So I looked at the whole problem as a chemist, as a biochemist, and as a molecular biologist. Christian de Duve

Life Problem Living Define Features Major Looked Concerned Chemist Common Subtly Organisms Molecular Whole Living Organisms Biologist

To a synthetic chemist, the complex molecules of nature are as beautiful as any of her other creations. The perception of that beauty depends on the understanding of chemical structures and their transformations, and, as with a treasured work of art, deepens as the subject is studied, perhaps even to a level approaching romance. Elias James Corey

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I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist. Francis Collins

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My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife. George Akerlof

Mother Father Faculty Housewife Yale Chemist

The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist. George Stigler

Challenges Competition Behavior Challenge Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Complex Intricate Citizens Thousands Delicate Economic Physicist Economist Perhaps Chemist Stockholm Offers Pattern Cooperation

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 chemist was, but I kept it up and got my Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Gordon Moore

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My dad is an entomologist and research chemist. That's why he was in Fiji, studying the rhinoceros beetle invasive species. Jeff Vandermeer

Research He Studying Chemist Beetle Rhinoceros Fiji Dad Species Why

If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school. Kathy Reichs

My hair is dry. A lot of shampoos and greasers don't work with me, and so I started playing around with a chemist on a product that'll work with me. Killer Mike

Work Me Hair Dry Around Chemist Lot Product Started Playing

I've got six brothers, so I grew up with all boys, then I moved in with three girls, and the differences were incredible. Living in a very feminine house threw me a bit. The bathroom was unbelievable; it was like a chemist's. Kimberley Nixon

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Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest. L. Wolfe Gilbert

Guardian Blackest Perchance Chemist

My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart. Lucas Till

Mom Smart Pretty She Chemist

I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny. I started doing stand-up to add another level to my game. I feel that I'm a young rookie with a veteran's skill. Marlon Wayans

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine. Paracelsus

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I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people. Peter Carey

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Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer. Richard Ernst

Become Would Composer Rather Knew Soon Chemist Than

In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity. Robin Williams

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From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. Stephen LaBerge

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Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful. Tamsin Greig

Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist. Tony Wilson

Good Needs Chemistry Band Own Every Chemist Very Special

In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe. William Standish Knowles

Those Would Could Days Industry Chemist Hire Any Breathe

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