• Question: what made you become a scientist??

    Asked by emmamarie1998 to Austin, Kirsty, Nicola, Nike, Sarah on 10 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by ayesha678, trollface, zaman123, smellen, littleman43, hamza123.
    • Photo: Austin Elliott

      Austin Elliott answered on 10 Jun 2012:

      Errm – it seemed like a good idea at the time!! It was curiosity, mainly. It’s like solving a very big puzzle. Sometimes the puzzle is small and practical – how do I get this !!!* experiment to work properly? Sometimes it’s bigger – can I come up with a theory that explains all of these experiments? But it’s a puzzle.

    • Photo: Kirsty Ross

      Kirsty Ross answered on 11 Jun 2012:

      I did think about becoming a medical doctor for a while. But then I realised that I wanted to discover and learn new stuff, not memorise a list of body parts! I’ve always been curious and interested in how things work, and now I get to do that as a job, which is pretty cool. Running an experiment and discovering something that no one else has is awesome! Although that is balanced out by the number of experiments that just make you go ‘Huh??!’

      The more science I learn, the more I realise how little I actually know! But that’s half the fun.

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