• Question: whats the best thing about being a scientist

    Asked by Garmaddon1 to Alex, Ali, Kerry, Philip, Theo on 12 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by The Canadian One, 329eura23.
    • Photo: Kerry O'Shea

      Kerry O'Shea answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      The best thing about being a scientist is getting to travel the world to present your research at conferences and meet other scientists. It’s very inspiring going to conferences and seeing the amazing work that everybody else is doing. It gives me more motivation for my own research when I come back!

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      Alex Pool answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      I think Kerry’s answer is great!

      To me it’s being able to do something different every day. Everyday doing an experiment no one else has ever done before and learning something no one else know. That’s the best bit to me.

    • Photo: Philip Ratcliffe

      Philip Ratcliffe answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Every now and then you (metphorically) jump out of the bath and run down the street shouting “Eureka!”
      Science is about solving problems that no-one has ever solved before. So you start working on something that you don’t completely understand and that no-one else understands (and you can’t ask your teacher to explain it to you when you’re stumped!), maybe you struggle for a few days, weeks, months and then one day, sometimes literally in a flash, in comes to you. In that moment, you’re the only one in the world who knows the answer – like being the first person to climb Everest. Fantastic.

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