Becoming Quote by Francis Collins

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

— Steven Hatfill

I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that…

— Peter Carey

I chose a career in medicine because I wanted a tangible skill with which to serve people. And so my role as a physician…

— Kent Brantly

I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a…

— Freema Agyeman

I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.

— Ieva Laguna

When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and…

— E. L. Konigsburg

I really wanted to be a doctor, until my freshman year of college when I realized that while I was good at chemistry and…

— Marissa Mayer

As a little girl, I aspired to be a doctor not just because my late father was a doctor but because I was mainly…

— Sherlyn Chopra

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…

— Jonah Lehrer

Yes, from the time I was in junior high school I decided I wanted to be a chemist. I didn't quite know what a…

— Gordon Moore

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

— Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer