• Question: what inspired you to go to science

    Asked by zuhra11 to Chris, Emily, Martin, Natalie, Tamsin on 15 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
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      Emily Cook answered on 15 Mar 2010:

      Being nosy!

      I like to know how things work and science explains why things happen so it satisfies my curiosity.

      Do you ever get a feeling of satisfaction when someone explains something to you and you go ‘oh, that’s why that happens’? I love that feeling. I like knowing when I look at stars that you are looking back in time, or why you can sometimes see a second rainbow near the first with its colours the wrong way round or why blu-ray is better than old DVD technology. Wanting to know ‘why?’ is what inspires me to be a scientist.

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      Martin Coath answered on 15 Mar 2010:

      I answered a similar question earlier which you might be able to find the answer to. But good teachers were important to me and I had a natural curiosity. I just like to find out what made thing work. There wasn’t just ONE thing.

      Have ever read something really odd and thought to yourself “crickey – thats amazing – how does that work?”. When I was young I thought that about everything 🙂

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      Chris Cooper answered on 15 Mar 2010:

      I think my main inspiration was TV popular science programs. In my day there was a great program called “How” on ITV. It explained lots of weird things about science.

      I was also a fan of science fiction books and I think reading books about space and robots intrigued me.

      Finally at secondary school I had some interesting biology teachers (the chemistry and physics ones weren’t so in love with their subject – at least in my school).

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      Natalie Stanford answered on 15 Mar 2010:

      I had an amazing Chemistry teacher at school called Mrs Harrison. She explained things really well, and clearly loved science. It made me much more interested in the subject and made me want to work harder to learn more about it.

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