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I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didn't wear off, but I found other interests.

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!

I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. He interested me in the laws of falling bodies when I was ten and helped my father equip a basement chemistry lab for me when I was fifteen. I became skilled in the synthesis of selenium halides.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.