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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

— Jane Goodall

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Nina Conti

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

— Richard Dawkins

I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.

— Andrea Barrett

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

— Barbara Block

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

— Terri Windling

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

— Michio Kaku

✗Opposing Perspectives

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

— Steven Squyres

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.

— Jonah Lehrer

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

— Charles H. Townes

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.

— Freema Agyeman