• Question: why did you want to be a scientist? and did you want to be a scientist when you wer'e younger? eg. 10 12 15

    Asked by gs56789 to Chris, Emily, Martin, Natalie, Tamsin on 16 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Martin Coath

      Martin Coath answered on 16 Mar 2010:

      I wanted to be a scientist because I was interested in how EVERYTHING worked and I thought scientist knew all of that stuff.

      I was about 7 when I first got this idea in my head but I wasn’t sure it was possible to become a scientist and I didn’t know how to start.

      You guys are lucky because you have events like this and people like us to inspire you 😉

    • Photo: Chris Cooper

      Chris Cooper answered on 16 Mar 2010:

      Just because I find it interesting. Curiosity about the world drives most scientists I think. I was interested in science from the age of 7 when I cut up the fish my mum bought me for dinner to see what was inside it!

    • Photo: Natalie Stanford

      Natalie Stanford answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      I wanted to be a scientist because I found I really enjoyed studying science and finding out new things. I didn’t really want to be a scientist when I was little, I did go through a phase when I was about 7 where I was obsessed with pathology. I could probably have performed a full autopsy and told you the cause of death of most people at the time. It wasn’t something my parents were too keen on though 😛

    • Photo: Emily Cook

      Emily Cook answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      It was never really a plan, but I was good a science at school so just kept doing it and now I am glad.

      When I was 10 I wanted to be a dancer. When I was 12 I wanted to be a writer and when I was 15 I was probably just about realising that science was what I was really interested in.

      I didn’t know then how many different jobs there were in science and I defintely didn’t know that physicists worked in hospitals, which is what I do now. There are loads of careers you can do in science, the hard part is finding out what they are.

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