Bill Foster Quotes

I got my undergraduate degree in chemical engineering.

Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.

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

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

You have to look at how chemistry develops.

Much of my work in biology has been driven by my early training in chemistry. When studying a new chemical compound, the first and most important thing is to determine its detailed molecular structure.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.

As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.

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.

I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

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

I have a B.A. from UCLA. In ethnic studies.

I went to Stanford.

I was in AP chemistry in high school, and I really liked it.

I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.

Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.

Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.

Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

My mum wanted me to go to university.

As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced to use the methods of this science [Chemistry / Physics]. No longer will the microscope, the kymograph, the scalpel avail for the complete solution of the problem…. the investigator must associate himself with those who have labored in fields where molecules and atoms, rather than multicellular tissues or even unicellular organisms, are the units of study.

I was the first in my family to go to college.

It never even crossed my mind I wouldn't go to college.