Becoming Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet…

— Jack Horner

My dream was to be a 'scientist' even before I knew what a scientist did.

— Ashoke Sen

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.

— Steven Hall

In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker…

— Jhonen Vasquez

I always wanted to be an archaeologist or a psychiatrist.

— Manini Mishra

When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies and sci-fi,…

— Dee Bradley Baker

I dreamed of being a nurse because I wanted to tangibly help the people I saw every day.

— Cori Bush

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

— Edith Widder

To be in contact with scientists, to become in a small way a scientist myself if possible, perhaps to cast new light on physical…

— Ernest Solvay

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist,…

— Judy Blume

My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.

— Alber Elbaz

The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got…

— Nick Tosches