Comment by telxosis

I love my parents but I don't think either of them have read a book in 50+ years now.

My mother kept a type of year book that each year I would say what I wanted to be when I grow up. I think in 5th grade I said physicist.

You know how they nurtured this curiosity? They did nothing. I don't think either of them even know what a physicist is beyond something to do with science.

I think in 6th grade I wanted a microscope that I eventually got but had no guidance on what to do , what to look at. I don't think I even knew there was this concept of "biology".

A huge number of kids have this same experience as I did right now.

What is even worse is life is ultimately a path dependent process with a huge part of the outcome based on the deterministic chaos of initial starting conditions.

No shit I would rather have my father be a particle physicist and my mother a librarian with a passion for reading non-fiction to kids.

My parents did the best they could but they are not intellectuals in the slightest and neither is the average person now. Claude would have been a god send to me in 5th grade.