• Question: What made you like science?

    Asked by anon-217059 to Harrison, Savannah, Philippe, Lucy, Joanna, Edoardo on 17 Jun 2019. This question was also asked by anon-217083, anon-217084.
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      Savannah Clawson answered on 17 Jun 2019:

      I think I have always been a very logical person and I liked solving puzzles growing up so I always enjoyed science. Science is all about coming up with ways to solve problems and using facts and logic to help you arrive at an answer. I have also always been an annoying person who won’t stop asking “why?” whenever I learn new things. I think this is an important part of being a scientist because your job is never done – whenever you answer one question in science, it creates lots more questions! Most of all, I just really enjoyed learning how everything around me works. I think it is super satisfying to be able to look up into the night sky and feel like I understand at least some of what is going on out in the universe!

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      Harrison Prosper answered on 17 Jun 2019: last edited 17 Jun 2019 7:11 pm

      I liked that science explained stuff in a a testable, logical, way and that scientists are trying as best they can to find things out that are true; true in the sense that the things found out are based on evidence. When I used to go to Sunday school (not for long, I might add!), I probably annoyed my teacher by asking questions such as: if God is so good why does God allow thousands of people to die in earthquakes and such? I never got answers that made any sense to me. But, then, I learned about plate tectonics; the fact that the Earth’s crust is broken and the heat from below makes them move, that there is nothing we can do about it, and some people are just terribly unlucky to live where the plates can suddenly move. That made sense to me and it was based on evidence. If my Sunday school teacher had told me that God had a diabolical streak and that’s why from time to time God allows bad things to happen to a lot of people I’d surely have been scared by that but at least it would have made sense to me. But the teacher kept on insisting that God is not only Good, but He (it was always a He!) is Perfect and Good. This made absolutely no sense to the young me. But science made sense to me.

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      Philippe Gambron answered on 18 Jun 2019:

      It explains how everything works, from why the sky is blue to how long you have to leave something in the microwave. What is really nice is to be able to understand certain things or even predict how they will take place simply by scratching our heads. I was also passionate about certain topics like particle physics, cosmology or black holes and it gave me some answers. But, not, I am asking myself even more questions.

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      Lucy Budge answered on 18 Jun 2019:

      Science and maths were always my favourite lessons in school, I can’t really explain why!

      But when I got to about 15 or 16 I started to be more and more interested in chemistry and physics and I started watching TV documentaries about science and reading as many books as I could. Eventually I discovered quantum mechanics and particle physics and found them so fascinating I just HAD to learn more!

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      Joanna Huang answered on 19 Jun 2019:

      To be honest, it was from watching films and reading books that used cool concepts like time travel and wormholes and stuff. I was also into that, and in high school, I started to learn about how these sci-fi ideas can actually become reality! To me that was really exciting, and got me into science 🙂

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      Edoardo Vescovi answered on 19 Jun 2019: last edited 19 Jun 2019 9:43 pm

      I always liked it, so it’s difficult to answer. I loved reading pop-science books and watch documentaries and some science-related movies. I learned more about proper science at school and started from there.

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