• Question: why did you become a scientist when art was your favourite subject?

    Asked by anon-217089 to Joanna on 18 Jun 2019. This question was also asked by anon-217067.
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      Joanna Huang answered on 18 Jun 2019:

      Very nice catch reading my profile!! So as much as I loved doing art, I was thinking a little bit ahead of myself and wasn’t sure if I would be a good enough artist to make a living out of it! I think it’s a lot harder to become an artist than a scientist, because countries generally have more funding and more jobs for those in science. Don’t get me wrong – I love science as well, it’s completely different than art so it’s like comparing apples and pears 🙂

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    Harrison commented on :

    Very interesting! Like Joanna, art was my thing, in my case before the age of 13. But the moon landing on July 20th 1969 changed the direction of my life. I still like art, though I need to force myself to make time to get back to drawing. But, physics has its own beauty too!