[It only occurs then to Laszlo that this fellow might also be a man of science and not just someone who gets his kicks rifling through automaton guts. This makes him actually worth his time, so he pauses to look him over, his gaze lingering over the weird, multicolored scars.]

Broadly, biology and chemistry, though one must have an interest in all the natural sciences if one intends to make progress. [It also helps when one can spend hundreds of years studying.]

I take it you have similar interests.