• Question: What got you liking science?

    Asked by anon-292256 to Ross on 19 Apr 2021.
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      Ross Low answered on 19 Apr 2021:

      Hi Ella-Carol, I really liked science in school because I liked that there was a right answer for everything. When I went to university I realised that there are some questions that nobody knows the answers to. So I wanted to go and find those answers, and the best way of doing that is by using science.

      I hope that answers your question?

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    Neil commented on :

    Hi Ella-Carol,
    I started to really like Science when I realised that it could be applied to the things that I love to do, for example, Sport and Exercise. In school I did Chemistry and Physics and although I didn’t mind them, I probably didn’t engage fully with them. At University when I started to study Sport and Exercise Science, I began to understand more about how science could be applied in this scenario and this is when I really started to like it. For example, when I realised that applying scientific findings to a team or athlete’s training could then improve their performance enough so they could potentially win a match or race etc.
    Hope this answers the question!
    Neil

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    Quentin commented on :

    Hi Ella-Carol! I agree with Ross here, I really enjoy the “discovery” in science too, answering questions and solving problems 🙂 In my case, I also like to understand how living things behave, the rules they follow, the interactions they have…
    I think that’s the most amazing thing about science: there are so many different questions you can look at! This means that you can choose what YOU like, and work on that 😀 Hopefully, you can see the diversity of science through all the different profiles of scientists on the website!

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    Lucile commented on :

    Hi Ella-Carol!

    What I always found fascinating about science was that by combining the knowledge of many brilliant minds, scienticists are able to understand the nature around us in so much detail that we can now explain many natural processes beyond what a single human mind could understand. Thanks to that, we can explore how the world was in the past, and how the world is likely to change in the future. I think it is amazing to see what the combined knowledge of generations of scientists can do!

    And because there are still so many things yet to understand, you can as a scientist chose to contribute to that knowledge by focusing on something you really like. You then get to explore it in detail, find new evidence, new methods to make sense of that evidence…. it’s like being a detective on a massive investigation! 🙂

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    Rosie commented on :

    Hi Ella-Carol, I always loved finding out about the bigger and smaller picture when I was younger – I wanted to know how the universe worked on the level of the stars and was fascinated by atoms and how they worked. This lead me to pursue a physics degree when I left school. I finished my degree with more questions than answers, but also the tools to keep asking and discovering on a deeper level than before!

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    Steve commented on :

    Hi Ella-Carol!

    I think I have just always been desperate to understand HOW things work – whether it’s the tv, chemical reactions or the body. I started off being interested in space and astronomy, then fell in love with chemistry. I just loved the idea of being able to know about the really small stuff which decided how everything behaved. I still love astronomy and chemsitry (although might not admit it to my chemistry colleagues :-)) – but have somehow ended up doing something that’s a bit removed from them. I’m still driven by wanting to understand how things work – it’s what gets me out of bed in a morning!

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    Chiara commented on :

    Hi Ella-Carol! I’ve always been intrigued by the nature and what is happening around as. For example, as a kid, I used to play close to a small stream in my village and my siblings and I were always searching for tadpoles. I loved watching them change with time and I tried to understand how and why that was happening. This curiosity never fade away and, growing up, I found myself even more attracted by science: I loved the idea of being able to study and understand how nature works. I basically like all forms of science, but biology has always been my biggest passion: I find amazing how inside every single cell there is a complete world, with still many unknown rules and “inhabitants”. Even in a small cells, everything is controlled and organised in a perfect way and every time you try to understand something, you end up with more new questions than answers. But this is the fascinating thing..you never stop learning!

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    Angela commented on :

    am inquisitive to know about how things work and in my case it was about medicine !

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    Karrie commented on :

    I love to know about how thing works and science speak to me more than languages, so that is why i love science.

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    Abdullah commented on :

    Hi Ella- Carol,
    I love the process of learning about the workings of the world and knowing how things around me work. From our own bodies and the how oxygen is carried around to how everything has protons inside. What got me to pursue a career in science was a GCSE Biology lesson on stem cells. Cells that can produce other cells. I was thrilled by this ability and how I could be used to help people.

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    Ed commented on :

    My Grandad got me into science. He used to work with radiation in a hospital in London – once his department was visited by the Queen. I thought that was really cool.