“ To do suc cessful research, you don't need to know everything, you just, need to know one thing that isn't known. Arthur Leonard Schawlow Physicist
“ Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can. Arthur Leonard Schawlow Physicist
“ The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is Arthur Leonard Schawlow Physicist
“ The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist. John Ruskin Art Critic
“ The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out. Nicolas Chamfort Writer
“ I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people. Peter Carey Novelist
“ My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends. Rita Dove Poet
“ From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. Stephen Laberge