what is your favourite thing about science

Philip Denniff answered on 2 Apr 2020:

I like the buzz you get when you understand how something works or why it does not work. Its probably the same buzz you get when you score the winning goal, but I have never done that. It is how even simple things work so really well. Its having an idea (I wonder if…) and then testing it, to see if is true. At your age it was being curious and asking why, and if you don’t understand say tell me again using different words.Its that ‘oh I understand now.’

Simon Waldman answered on 2 Apr 2020:

My area of science is less about discovering things, and more about developing new techniques. So the best bit for me is when somebody outside science – for example, in a company – says “Thanks, your work has helped us solve a problem”.

Martin Coath answered on 2 Apr 2020:

There are three basic views of science, you can strongly agree with *all* of them if you want to 😉 but usualy people find themselves drawn to one more than the others:

1) Science is great because it describes the real world that we live in truthfully

2) Science is great because it allows us to control and build things that work

3) Science is great because it allows us to move knowledge forward, and refine it, getting an ever more sophisticated understanding of the world

Which one attracts you? Which one do you think most scientists would go for?

Lucy Kelly answered on 2 Apr 2020:

I love that every day is so different you can never get bored! You can spend one day in the lab doing experiments, the next day doing fieldwork and the next travelling worldwide to conferences. There’s always really new and interesting things to learn about too!

Carol Wallace answered on 2 Apr 2020:

it’s like doing a big jigsaw puzzle and that great feeling when you find the missing bit – it only happens occasionally, but when it does the feeling is amazing
most of science is filling in the sky and boring bits, but they’re are essential to complete the picture

Edoardo Vescovi answered on 2 Apr 2020:

It is international and written in a language that everybody can understand if properly educated. There are hundreds of languages spoken today, but the language of science remains in numbers, figures, measurements and statistics. The content changes over time as we make steps further, but it still remains universally comprehensible.
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It also makes possible to everyone to test if a certain idea or result is reliable and, if not, to come up with a more accurate one.
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Science answers our wonder about the natural world in a way that brings other questions. Looks like an endless game? Maybe so, but not pointless because we learn little by little at each answer. It keeps us challenging what just learned as we explain new discoveries that don’t fit well with our previous thoughts.
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Reliable knowledge stimulates technology. Think about the way goods travel around the world has changed, from chariots among nearby villages to container ships in the oceans. It happened after understanding how things work and mastering many different technologies.
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Let’s not forget that science makes us enjoy sci-fi! Is this scene realistic? Will that gismo ever be possible? How many things that you thought impossible in a movie have you seen later for real?

Robert Ives answered on 2 Apr 2020:

Finding out something new. Having a question, an idea in your head and working with other people to find the answer (or not). I love that there will always be more to learn and that science is so BIG, we can choose to learn about just the bits that interest us (if we are lucky). Finally, I love the fact that there is always a chance you could help discover, invent, build something which improves the world in some way, be it humans, animals, the seas, whatever, making a real difference can give you a massive buzz

Hayley Pincott answered on 2 Apr 2020:

I like that what I do can help a patient get the right treatment or management plan for their disease. I only play a small part in this whole process but I love what I do. Over 70% of any diagnosis made involves Biomedical Science, which is basically the lab based practical work carried out on a patient sample like blood, urine, tissue and loads of other things we carry out tests on. Most Biomedical Scientists work in a hospital lab and carry out tests on patients in the hospital, from GPs, other hospitals and dentists so as a department we get a huge variety of samples.

Kaitlin Wade answered on 2 Apr 2020:

Being able to work with experts to solve really complex problems that may help prevent diseases in the future.

Michael Schubert answered on 2 Apr 2020:

I love the variety. Science is never-ending! One day, I can study how water works. The next, I might be researching which dinosaur was the fastest runner. The next day? Who knows – maybe I’ll be studying which cells are the best at fighting off bacteria or how fast a space probe would have to travel to escape Jupiter’s orbit. Any question I have, I can use science to investigate!

David Sobral answered on 4 Apr 2020:

That it does not matter who you are, where you come from and that anything and everything can and should be questioned all the time. Being able to discover and study galaxies tens of billions of light years away is also incredibly cool!

Lauren Burns answered on 6 Apr 2020:

I like science because it teaches us as people to question the world around us, then encourages us to find the answers to our own questions. For me, science is freedom.

Douglas Bray answered on 6 Apr 2020:

I like to be able to discover new things. Working in science allows you to work in areas that no-one else has and means that you can contribute in a real way the extension of human knowledge. It is very satisfying to be able find things out and say that I did that.

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