• Question: what made u want to be a scientist

    Asked by anon-206856 to Claire, Zoe, Kai, Jose Eliel, Hannah, Hamid on 6 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-206826, anon-206584, anon-206585, anon-206360, anon-206377, anon-206361, anon-206157.
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      Claire Greenwell answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      When I was at school I just really liked the way maths and science could describe things that happened, and that you could use that knowledge to work out what would happen – for example, if you throw a ball, and you know how fast you throw it, and at what angle, you can work out exactly how far it’ll go. That just seemed really neat and satisfying to me.

      Of course most of the real world is much more complicated than that! But we can still try and describe it, and we’re getting really good at predicting a lot of it (sometimes we need very powerful computers, and some things we haven’t quite understood yet). So the aim as a scientist is to just make things a little better understood.

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