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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

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

I had been interested in science from when I was very young, but after a disastrous summer lab experience in which every experiment I tried failed, I decided on graduating from college that I was not cut out to be a scientist.

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.

I always said I wanted to be scientist, but I didn't really have the staying power.

So I decided on science when I was in college.

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.

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

When it came to choice of subjects, science was obvious - since I was uninterested in anything else - but a decision that caused consternation in some eyes was my demand to take biology for A-level.