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I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

I had a science teacher in middle school who inspired me... simply because she acknowledged me and made me feel that what I had to offer was worthy.

One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me. I got excited at university.

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.

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

I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.

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