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Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

I was always good at math and science and physics.

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

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.

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.