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Asked by anon-380812 on 18 Jan 2024. This question was also asked by anon-379329.
Question: What is your favourite thing about science?
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Andrew Maynard answered on 18 Jan 2024:
How much time do you have? I *love* discovering things that I don’t know and having that feeling of my mind being blown. I get really excited when I’m doing experiments and am able to “see how the universe works — like looking down a transmission electron microscope and seeing rows of atoms!
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Carl Peter Robinson answered on 18 Jan 2024:
For me, it’s the chance that you might be the one to discover something brand new, to make a difference to people’s lives, to help people in some way. Taking ideas and doing the research and experimentation to test your theories, it can be really exciting. It’s also fascinating to read about what other researchers and scientists are doing, online and in journals or conference papers (as long those papers aren’t stuck behind paywalls!).
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Fraser Smith answered on 19 Jan 2024:
My favourite thing is trying to understand how things work! Meeting and working with people from around the world to ask interesting questions is also a great aspect of being a scientist. Teaching or training students can also be very rewarding as you feel their excitement to learn.
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