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I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.

— William Standish Knowles

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

— George Andrew Olah

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

— Ellen Ochoa

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

— George E. Brown, Jr.

I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

— Steven Squyres

My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut.

— Carol W. Greider

I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.

— Gertrude B. Elion

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think my father, who was Chinese, basically felt if we didn't major in science, we would starve on the streets, so we all went into science unquestioningly. I kind of faked my way through physics.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

— Kenneth G. Wilson

I think I was a born scientist.

— Ken Wilber