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Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

— Richard P. Feynman

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist. This was the expectation everybody had apart from my parents. Honestly, I, too, wanted to be a scientist. I think it was the way Dad would explain us scientific theories and concepts that made the subject more intriguing.

— Shreya Ghoshal

I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.

— Barbara Block

When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

— Malala Yousafzai

I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in your genes.'

— Anne Wojcicki

I think I was a born scientist.

— Ken Wilber

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

— Rip Torn

A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.

— Bindi Irwin

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

— Michio Kaku

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

— Tom Hooper

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

— Michael Leunig