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I always wanted to be a teacher.

I wanted to be a teacher.

One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.

I was a terrible science student, so I could never be a scientist; my mind doesn't work that way. But I've learned to love the stories around science, and I have so much respect and fascination for the people who can make discoveries and find applications. There's a lot of drama there.

I like solving problems, and science provides a logical way of solving real-life problems.