Assess the situation.
Figure out what you want to do.
Ask yourself, what do I want to accomplish?
Do you want to do this as a hobby on the side maybe once a weekend? Do you want to make this your lifelong obsession and start a company someday based around your research? Do you want a job in a lab? What is your end goal?
Plenty of people have hobbies, and plenty of people have obsessions, sometimes the two go hand in hand.
My friend who flies model airplanes does it as a hobby, it is not his career.
I do science every waking hour of my day, it is both a hobby and an obsession and a way of life.
The answers to those questions will help decide what you actually need. If you want to do a strawberry DNA extraction you need soap, table salt, and rubbing alcohol amounting to maybe $1.00. If you want to do a bacterial transformation, perhaps $50. If you want to change the world...however much stuff costs on ebay!
There are thousands of .pdfs and youtube videos a google away relating to all sorts of basic lab techniques and experiments, so I don't know how many people will hold your hand here for something that has been asked 1000 times and write out a step by step. If, on the other hand, you want to do extreme cutting edge science, well then, get to the drawing board and start dreaming up fantastical ideas, then get to the lab bench and put them into practice!
If you ask specific questions you will probably get specific answers, and lots of people on here are very excited to help and share knowledge.
The best advice I can give you is to just do it. Just get in the lab, even if it is your kitchen, and do real hands on experiments. After years in school and in the lab, I think I might draw the conversion rate at about:
1,000 lecture/reading hours = 1 hour in the lab
Hands on experience will trump only reading every single time, in the sciences and in every other trade, but combine the two and you can be a great force of change!
Would you hire someone who read about putting nails into wood for 10 years in books, or someone who was a carpenter's apprentice for one summer?
So, perhaps elaborate on what it is you want to do and maybe we can offer more specific advice.
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