I Felt Strongly That Since The Pursuit

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.

How Scientists Go About Their Job: And It's A Process, It's A Question Of Asking Questions, Respecting Observation, Respecting Experiment, Having Tentative Explanations And Then Testing Them.... There Is A Problem Sometimes With How We Teach Science At Schools. Because We Sometimes Teach It As If It Has Been Chiseled In Stone.

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

At Age 11 In 1960, I Moved To An Academic State Secondary School, Harrow County Grammar School For Boys.