A Quote by Jane Goodall

I wasn't trying to be a scientist. I only ever wanted to be a naturalist, like a David Attenborough.

Jane Goodall

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Jane Goodall
English - Scientist
Born: April 3, 1934

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

Jane Goodall

I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have any desire to go and be a scientist. Louis Leakey channeled me there. I'm delighted he did. I love science. I love analyzing and making sense of all these observations. So, it was the perfect rounding off of who I was into who I am.

Jane Goodall

I actually went to Wimbledon, and David Attenborough was sat in the row in front of me, and I thought that was quite amazing. That's insane, isn't it? He's, like, a proper person.

Noel Fielding

It was a pleasure to work alongside Sir David Attenborough and Hans Zimmer.

Santan Dave

There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.

Bjork

David Attenborough's 'Life' series is phenomenal. He's a wonderful modern soothsayer.

Dervla Kirwan

I'm a big fan of David Attenborough, who I think is the most adventurous of the nature program presenters.

Oona Chaplin

David Attenborough... has that wonderful, breathy voice, and he's always so fascinated by what he's seeing. There's nothing about him that I can't find attractive.

Jane Birkin

I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.

Bobby Fischer

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

Amy Sedaris

If I ever wanted to pick someone's brain, like Larry David would obviously be the most relevant.

Steve Dildarian

What about volcanoes?" "What about them?" "All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true.

Neil Gaiman

When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream when I was a girl was I would be hired by 'National Geographic' or work with David Attenborough, but it didn't happen. I became a model.

Isabella Rossellini

The phrase "singular incredible life" seems to me that it applies more appropriately to Jane Goodall or David Attenborough, people I regard with awe and who stand for great humanism and knowledge.

Merrill Markoe

If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.

Agnes Denes

My childhood hero was David Attenborough. He opened my eyes to the wonder of the natural world. In fact, he's still my hero. I interviewed him at the Science Museum in 2015, and he is such a thoughtful, humble and inspiring person.

Alice Roberts

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