Syukuro Manabe on his family background and how he chose physical sciences over biological sciences

Manabe:

I'm from a very rural area. I was born in the countryside, right end of Shokusmore [?] Island. I was born there and I was the youngest son of medical doctor. My grandfather was a medical doctor also. So when I was young I always want to become a medical doctor. And sort of I thought this is sort of everybody and all my relatives and my brother is going to medical school, everybody going there, so I thought that what it is. But then I get gradually more and more interested in the mathematics or physical science, rather than biological science. And at that time I falsely get the impression that biological science is not the thinking science, okay, which is wrong obviously, and physical science because of mathematical elegance therefore it has more logic to it and more satisfying to do. And so as time goes on, even though I still keep going to the track to go to medical school [???], but I start getting despising biology. And because biology I can prepare day before exam. And so that's what I was doing. And then entrance examination I did very well in all this, in biology I memorized everything, physical science problem solving I practiced well, and fast I got in a 6-year continuum medical school. But then —