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At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.

I started doing experiments - mostly in organic chemistry, because it was so much more interesting - in my mother's laundry at home.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

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'm sort of an experimenter; I thought it'd be interesting to play around and see what's there.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.