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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.

— Matt Ridley

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I liked science very much. A science teacher in high school inspired me, and because of him, I began studying science at the university. But when I got there... well, the subject still attracted me a lot, but I had to do all these exams, and it was just like working in an office. I couldn't stand that.

— Theo Jansen

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

— Moby

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.

— George E. Brown, Jr.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

— George E. Brown, Jr.

I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do with the natural world. For years, when I was younger, I was convinced I would be a nature photographer, but that didn't pan out.

— Tom Weston-Jones

Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

✗Opposing Perspectives

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

— Joseph Rotblat

I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.

— Freema Agyeman

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.

— Harald zur Hausen