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

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

I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.

I wanted to be a scientist. But I had no math skills.

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.

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

I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

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.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.