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I loved the idea that biology was logical.

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

My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

The subject I was best at in school was biology.

I like problems at the borders of disciplines. One of the reasons that neurobiology of learning and memory appeal to me so much was that I liked the idea of bringing biology and psychology together.

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.

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

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.

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.