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From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.

My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens.

I was interested in science before I even knew what science was.

As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.

So I decided on science when I was in college.

I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years.

I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.