It Has Been A Privilege To Pursue

During The Winter My Attention Was Attracted To The Changes In The Stars And Planets In The Sky.

Like Many Students, I Found The Drudgery Of Real Experiments And The Slowness Of Progress A Complete Shock, And At My Low Points I Contemplated Other Alternative Careers Including Study Of The Philosophy Or Sociology Of Science.

I Was Never Very Good At Exams, Having A Poor Memory And Finding The Examination Process Rather Artificial, And There Never Seemed To Be Enough Time To Follow Up Things That Really Interested Me.

I Felt Strongly That Since The Pursuit Of Good Science Was So Difficult It Was Essential That The Problem Being Studied Was An Important One To Justify The Effort Expanded.

I Think It Was This Curiosity About The Natural World Which Awoke My Early Interest In Science.