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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

From my earliest days I had a passion for science.

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.

I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.

Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years.

So I decided on science when I was in college.

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

I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist.

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