William Lipscomb Quotes

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

Neither Adam or I are scientists, we're not engineers or anything of the sort. We just have a lot of fun and the thing is, fun for us happens to involve science and satisfying our curiosity.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

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

I attended elementary school and high school in Mexico City. I was already fascinated by science before entering high school; I still remember my excitement when I first glanced at paramecia and amoebae through a rather primitive toy microscope.

At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

Once you open the toy box they will play with the toys

Chemistry is not torture but instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff, and if you give it a chance, it will not only blow your mind but also give you a deeper understanding of your world.

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

I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. “Izzy,” she would say, “did you ask a good question today?” That difference — asking good questions — made me become a scientist.

Science and fun cannot be separated.

Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.

I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.

My mother always cultivated my imagination from the time I was very little.

In Quanzhou, I have a lot of influence from superstition. I would go to the temple with my grandmother and mother. That is why I have a lot of curiosity about the unseen force and invisible things.

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

I believe a child's most important job is to explore the world around them through play.

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

I always want to know about things.

Experiencing lots of different things is what being a kid is all about, and it helps make the most of their childhood.