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I was glad I liked chemistry.

I had a great chemistry teacher and found it really interesting to learn how things are made up and how they work.

Everything inspires me, but when it comes to chemistry, and when it comes to the ups and downs of relationships, that's what's real for people.

I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

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 been very little gratitude for this.

Sometimes I get too wound up in my chemistry, but if you play chamber music, it's impossible to think about chemistry.

Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.

Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a moment, it is an instant of intense emotion: an immense field of investigation suddenly opens up before you.

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.

You fall for who the chemistry is with.