 Well, when I was a child I was playing around. I was just interested. I wanted to know how to do stuff and how to think about stuff and I wanted to see the stars with my telescope and I actually was able to see sunspots by protecting the sun through the lenses of this small cardboard tube telescope onto a cardboard and I read a lot. It's cheaper to read than it is to build so I read as much as I could. I also got excited about electronics and that was a pretty hot topic for radio amateurs to listen to shortwave and things like that when I was in fifth grade or so. But basically I just did everything I could to learn stuff more or less by myself because there weren't that many other students in my school who were really interested in science so a lot from the library. I got all the books from the library that you could get.