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My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

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

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.

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.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

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.