Question: how did u learn all yore science?did you grt tort at school

Austin Elliott answered on 14 Jun 2012:

I started science at school, like you – I did separate science classes in Chemistry, Physics and Biology. Chemistry was definitely my favourite (colours! smells! loud bangs!), so I’m sometimes surprised I ended up working in what is mostly a biology-type subject (physiology). Though physiology is kind of ‘understanding the physics and chemistry underlying how things in biology work’, so maybe that’s why.
Anyway, I did three science O-levels (like GCSEs, I guess) in Physics Chemistry and Biology, and Maths too. But I only did ONE science subject in the 6th form, which was Chemistry. My other A levels (we only did three then, mostly) were Maths and German.

One of the classes I remember from my very first year doing biology at secondary school, when I was 12, was the experiment where they made us measure our resting pulse rate, then run across the playground several times, and then measure it again straight afterwards. They we plotted all the values for the whole class on a graph to show how much different peoples’ pulse rates varied. I still talk about this experiment when I teach the medical students at the University about how your heart rate is controlled.

One thing about working in science is that you NEVER stop learning, ever. I love just nosing about reading stuff that I didn’t know before, and there is so much that you can never possibly know everything, or even a tenth of it. And one of the best bits about teaching science is learning new things so you can pass them on.