Gordon Moore Quotes

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

I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things.

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

Well, I think that, you know, there's often two ways to become a scientist. One is to actually get your Ph.D. and then the other is to run for office.

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

To my knowledge, there's never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.

I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual employment.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

I absorb the science section of 'The New York Times.' You know, I have a degree: I'm an A.A.D. Almost a Doctor.

To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.

I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.

It shall be the duty of the legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them…

My first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

My older brother is a distinguished theoretical physicist, a fellow of the Royal Society.

A rational system and order for educational administration should be established on the principle of ensuring smooth progress of teaching and scientific research by teachers and researchers, and of edification of students.

My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.

I went to Enloe High School and then East Carolina University and graduated with a business degree in marketing.