For as long as I can remember, my house was always crowded with people involved in science, causing me to grow up believing that a scientist was a synonym for an honest, committed, and distinguished individual. It seemed like being a scientist was the only occupation in which one was not simply valued by his/her loyalty to a certain field or given proffesion, but by their worthiness as a creative and independent thinker. Among the circle of my family friends, there were many such independent thinkers, most of whom have devoted their lives to a science related profession.
             However, from the numerous scientists whom I had the chance to get acquainted with while I was growing up, I still consider my uncle, one of the leading researchers in radiation biophysics, the author of three textbooks, who liked everything innovative and who piloted one of first telecommunication wings between United States and the Soviet Union, to have had the most influential effect on who I am today. My uncle was a strong believer of the policy that in order for a person to succeed in any one particular field, he/she must possess some knowledge in all the other fields, since nothing in this world can exist on its own. He often used to say, "what you know can never hurt you" and that saying become my guiding stone throughout all my educational experiences.
             Education should not only be a solid foundation of knowledge, but a diverse one as well. Knowledge has exceeded being something I yearn for, simply for educational purposes. It has become the driving force that inspires me to attain more information, and has opened my mind to new ideas. Knowledge gives me the oppurtunity to ponder and think beyond what I already know. Just like my uncle once told me "there is nothing more enlightening, than sitting down and thinking."
             It is true about my uncle that he had an interesting and original opinion about any possible topic. An ordinary table talk...