Critical thinking Quote by Nick Sagan

My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

My father is a geologist and he really thinks that scientists are going to save the world, so he wanted me to be one.

— Lucy Worsley

My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind.

— Brian Dennehy

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted…

— Ahmet Zappa

My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to…

— Andre-Marie Ampere

My mom studied biology and my dad studied chemistry and some physics and he is a physician, but he had a very strong interest…

— Christina Koch

I wasn't naturally a scientist, but I was always fascinated by how the world worked and why things were the way they were.

— Dallas Campbell

I think my dad [ Stephen Hawking] would have been pleased if I had turned out a scientist because he truly believes that is…

— Stephen Hawking

My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was…

— James Tobin

“This is Galileo,” said Aristotle. “He advocates understanding the world through observation and experiment. He is an unimaginative thinker, but his results demand our…

— Liu Cixin

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out…

— Umberto Eco

There is actually so much to learn from people who lived, so inspiring to know what they thought or what were their world-views. Their…

— Shweta Basu Prasad