Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.'
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I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.
To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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.
At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.
I am spoiled, it's true. I don't even know how to use that thing in the kitchen with the burners.
Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day.
You know, you hear about these writers reading 'Lolita' at 12. I wanted to be a chemistry teacher.
My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities.
I had a great chemistry teacher and found it really interesting to learn how things are made up and how they work.
I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.