So you love to discover things, but it can’t all go on forever, so what happens to scientists like yourself when there

Question: So you love to discover things, but it can't all go on forever, so what happens to scientists like yourself when there is nothing more to learn?

Asked by iwantacharlie95 to Alexandra, Luisa on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: Your Research. This question was also asked by kpalmer.
- Alexandra Kamins answered on 16 Jun 2010:
  
  Why can’t it go on forever? How can we run out of things to discover?
  
  For me personally, diseases are always mutating, changing, learning new tricks. It’s never the same, and never will be–it CAN’T be. HIV didn’t even exist fifty years ago. Who knows what will appear tomorrow? I think scientists will always have a job.

Question: So you love to discover things, but it can't all go on forever, so what happens to scientists like yourself when there is nothing more to learn?