• Question: Out of 10 how much do you like science and why ?

    Asked by Simply NG to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 16 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by liblou.
    • Photo: Steven Thomson

      Steven Thomson answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      11!

      Science is great – it’s fun, it’s rewarding, and it’s a way we can make a difference to the world by discovering something new. We get paid to ask questions and discover things no one has ever known before. What could be better than that?

    • Photo: Lidunka Vocadlo

      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      @Simply Niamh I have two answers – I have the same 11 as Steven for science itself, and a more moderate 7 or so for the job. Unfortunately our work has to be paid for, and we have to find the money to do it, so you end up doing less science and more time trying to get funding for other people to do it.

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      Sarah Beasley answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      That’s quite difficult. If I give it a 10 does that mean I like other things less? I think I like my friends and pets more than science, so I’d give them a 10, but without science we wouldn’t be able to survive, so maybe I’ll give science a 10! Argh!

    • Photo: Jillian Scudder

      Jillian Scudder answered on 23 Jun 2015:

      Science itself I give a 10. If it weren’t for science I would have died a long time ago. (Thank you modern medicine and antibiotics.) And watching our understanding of space grow is wildly exciting. I love it.

      The way you get into science, and the job itself, and the faculty/postdoc/grad school/undergrad system gets a worse rating, because it can be kind of bad for your mental health at times, depending on who surrounds you, and it’s stressful to not know where you’ll be working on science in a few years.

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