Science is about finding out the way the world works and looking for the evidence for this. Well that’s the proper answer anyway.
For me, I have a a lot of fun in science but that’s because I enjoy it. I am a huge science geek. I like being able to answer questions that no one has been able to find the answer for. I like being able to test my ideas to see whether what I think is right or wrong.
If I’m wrong then that is perfectly okay! I don’t know of any other workplace where it’s okay to be wrong because in science it nearly always means learning something new and that is encouraged in science.
Running my own experiments is very much like a Choose Your Own Adventure book. I got to decide what to do and find out the results of my actions. Sometimes I got to go forward in the story and other times I just had to start all over again.
So personally for me, science is about having fun while discovering new things. This is what I love about science but I do know that this isn’t how everyone feels and that’s okay too.
I thinks science is about understanding the world around us (and ourselves). The earliest scientists were the Philosophers who would constantly ask ‘why?’, just like little kids do. Science answers these questions by doing experiments and gathering evidence, so that we can confidently say “This is why”.
It’s about finding what interests you then learning everything about it that you can. Sometimes other people’s work will give you the answer, sometimes you have to discover it yourself.
I think that understanding the science behind things makes them so much more amazing. When you look at something closely you realise how extraordinarily complex it and how incredible it is that it even exists.
Science is about understanding the world by taking a very simple approach to things.
The main thing to realise is that you’re probably a scientist. You want to know how things are. You try stuff and, based on what you see, you change what you do next.
Let’s say you want to get into a car. The first time you try to do this you just run at the door headfirst and crash into it. That hurts. You think “alright, that didn’t work too well, let me try something else”. The scientist wouldn’t keep doing random things. He or she would go look at the car, and would look at other cars, and look to see how other people are getting into their cars. They’d then try to use that knowledge. You’d look for a key. You’d see that the key works. You would then start to understand something about the way the door works. You”d assume that every time you put the key in the door, it’d open.
And so on. This is just applying logic to the world. You’re saying – the world has a certain structure. It’s understandable. The things I observe today will happen tomorrow. If they don’t then I don’t understand something and I will think some more.
Imagine you get a stomach ache. Do you think that that’s caused by a small man living in your stomach? Is it because someone on the other side of the world said your name 3 times? Or do you think “I probably ate something – I wonder what it was” and then you remember that burger you found on the floor and liked the look of.
Science is all about this: the world has a certain structure. I can understand it if I play with it and if I believe what I see. The more I play with it the better my understanding will be. I believe my eyes. I don’t believe what people just tell me.
Because that’s the way people behave anyway, we’re all scientists, really. I think kids are particularly good scientists since you’re willing to question everything and you think adults are stupid. Sometimes adults get tired of questioning everything all the time, and so make up their minds about things to save time (we’re quite busy) and when you’ve made up your mind about something it feels good, but a little bit of the scientist in you dies when that happens. You’ve got to keep questioning everything so that you play with the world in the most creative ways.
The best piece of advice a scientist ever gave me: “Never assume anything.”
Science is about finding out the way the world works and looking for the evidence for this. Well that’s the proper answer anyway.
For me, I have a a lot of fun in science but that’s because I enjoy it. I am a huge science geek. I like being able to answer questions that no one has been able to find the answer for. I like being able to test my ideas to see whether what I think is right or wrong.
If I’m wrong then that is perfectly okay! I don’t know of any other workplace where it’s okay to be wrong because in science it nearly always means learning something new and that is encouraged in science.
Running my own experiments is very much like a Choose Your Own Adventure book. I got to decide what to do and find out the results of my actions. Sometimes I got to go forward in the story and other times I just had to start all over again.
So personally for me, science is about having fun while discovering new things. This is what I love about science but I do know that this isn’t how everyone feels and that’s okay too.
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I thinks science is about understanding the world around us (and ourselves). The earliest scientists were the Philosophers who would constantly ask ‘why?’, just like little kids do. Science answers these questions by doing experiments and gathering evidence, so that we can confidently say “This is why”.
It’s about finding what interests you then learning everything about it that you can. Sometimes other people’s work will give you the answer, sometimes you have to discover it yourself.
I think that understanding the science behind things makes them so much more amazing. When you look at something closely you realise how extraordinarily complex it and how incredible it is that it even exists.
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Science is about understanding the world by taking a very simple approach to things.
The main thing to realise is that you’re probably a scientist. You want to know how things are. You try stuff and, based on what you see, you change what you do next.
Let’s say you want to get into a car. The first time you try to do this you just run at the door headfirst and crash into it. That hurts. You think “alright, that didn’t work too well, let me try something else”. The scientist wouldn’t keep doing random things. He or she would go look at the car, and would look at other cars, and look to see how other people are getting into their cars. They’d then try to use that knowledge. You’d look for a key. You’d see that the key works. You would then start to understand something about the way the door works. You”d assume that every time you put the key in the door, it’d open.
And so on. This is just applying logic to the world. You’re saying – the world has a certain structure. It’s understandable. The things I observe today will happen tomorrow. If they don’t then I don’t understand something and I will think some more.
Imagine you get a stomach ache. Do you think that that’s caused by a small man living in your stomach? Is it because someone on the other side of the world said your name 3 times? Or do you think “I probably ate something – I wonder what it was” and then you remember that burger you found on the floor and liked the look of.
Science is all about this: the world has a certain structure. I can understand it if I play with it and if I believe what I see. The more I play with it the better my understanding will be. I believe my eyes. I don’t believe what people just tell me.
Because that’s the way people behave anyway, we’re all scientists, really. I think kids are particularly good scientists since you’re willing to question everything and you think adults are stupid. Sometimes adults get tired of questioning everything all the time, and so make up their minds about things to save time (we’re quite busy) and when you’ve made up your mind about something it feels good, but a little bit of the scientist in you dies when that happens. You’ve got to keep questioning everything so that you play with the world in the most creative ways.
The best piece of advice a scientist ever gave me: “Never assume anything.”
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