• Question: What do you think is the most important part of being a scientist?

    Asked by victoriafarre to Carmen, Daniel, Laura, Noel, Steph on 9 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Noel Carter

      Noel Carter answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      The ability to cope with a 90% failure rate! Most of the time things don’t quite work as you expect or at all and you need to remember that it is just part of the job.

    • Photo: Laura Garcia Ibanez

      Laura Garcia Ibanez answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Hello Victoria! I think the most important part is being patient. Experiments take a long time normally and also most of them don’t work or work in the completely opposite way that you were expecting so the whole hypothesis and sometimes even the whole project need to be redirected. Cheers!

    • Photo: Carmen Denman

      Carmen Denman answered on 11 Mar 2015:

      Ditto what Noel and Laura say. Patience and Resilience! Optimism is important too, but usually that is left to the bosses 🙂

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