College Quote by Alan Guth

I don't recall my parents ever steering me toward or away from science. It was more that I was steered toward learning and excellence…

— Sandra Faber

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

— George Smoot

My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me…

— Carl Sagan

Fortunately for me, I did not take any science classes in college.

— Michele Bachmann

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

— William Standish Knowles

Both my parents are from academics.

— Richa Chadha

My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when they saw…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

My dad was a scientist. More than that: my dad grew up in a tiny terraced house in Swansea, the only child of a…

— David Baddiel

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…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

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

— George Andrew Olah

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set…

— Jeremy Irons

My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was into the entertainment world at…

— Eloise Mumford