• Question: which area of science is the most important and why?

    Asked by Luke davis Swag warrior to Alison, Hannah, Jonny, MarthaNari, Paul on 19 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Martha Havenith

      Martha Havenith answered on 19 Jun 2015:

      I’d like to think there is no competition. Anything that can help us understand either ourselves or our environment is important. And one of the cool things about science is that you never know where the most useful next discovery will come from. For example, the guy who discovered radio signalling thought he was just studying air waves for fun. Right now, things like research into energy sources are of course really urgent, but I’d say that doesn’t mean the rest is less important.

    • Photo: Jonny Brooks-Bartlett

      Jonny Brooks-Bartlett answered on 19 Jun 2015:

      All science is just as important as any other. The reason is because every bit of science improves our knowledge and can help make create new inventions no matter whether it’s physics, biology or chemistry.

      Without physics we wouldn’t have cars, without biology we wouldn’t have medicines, without chemistry we wouldn’t have plastic materials.
      The lists are much longer but I hope that gives you an idea of how each area of how important each area is.

    • Photo: Paul Brack

      Paul Brack answered on 24 Jun 2015:

      I suppose the most important of science right now is that which address our biggest problems, which for me at the moment are providing enough energy and food for a growing population, whilst limiting the effect of climate change. However, like Martha and Jonny said, all the parts of science work together to solve these problems, along with engineers and social scientists and businesses and so on – it’s all so intertwined it’s hard to pick out one thing.

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