But he had taken so many science courses that being a theater major was out of the question.
He often explained that he had advised so many science fiction writers on the technical details of space flight and other scientific issues that he decided to take up writing himself.
Like so many science fiction fantasies, this deadpan comedy, which is "Brave New World" Lite, begins with a witty premise, then stumbles all over itself trying to tell a coherent, original story.
Joby Talbot, a modern composer who has scored the music for TV's The League of Gentlemen and arranged for The Divine Comedy, is currently at work on the soundtrack for a Disney film of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams' cult novel that informed the psyches of so many science-fiction-obsessed, bespectacled boys in need of a bit of fantasy in the early 1980s.
Like so many science undergraduates, I had an interest in science writing and thought about becoming a science journalist.
With so many science and technology companies looking for acquirers, flusher buyers like Google, Amazon.com, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson can hold prices down.
Nye says, "There are so many science education programs on the internet that didn't exist 25 years ago.
Like so many science questions, this one is not just about individual human pain, lost opportunities, lost lives, but also about the economy: mental illness costs America $300 billion a year.
Like so many in science, the latest discovery came about by chance.
'He has a very fine sense of historical perspective that gives his work a breadth that so many other science writers lack,' says friend Steve Rose, the British brain expert.
