As he once told the Washington Post: "When I came down I hurt my teeth in the net."

VOA: special.2010.07.05

She remembers that she did. "I think like many of the children in our world, I got interested in science just from having a butterfly net and from having a few strainers and some boots and going down to the streams and creeks and being out in the fields."

VOA: standard.2010.03.29