• Question: what made you think of being a scientist?

    Asked by crockettt to David, Helen, Ian, rhysphillips, Sarah on 16 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by 07harrissop, slmg, wilsoncwh, phippardjwh, gissanekwh, readlwh, ohhikiara, ohheycyd, maxth13, taderz, aidaaarr, sophie123, granta2.
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      Helen Fletcher answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      Hi crockett, I was always interested in “how things worked” but didn’t know that was “science” until I was at secondary school. A biology teacher at school said I would be a good scientist which made my first seriously think about it as a career,

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      Rhys Phillips answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      I didn’t really think about it that much – I always enjoyed science at school and it was my strongest subject so I did that at university and ended up doing a science job because of that.

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      Ian van der Linde answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      I wanted to be a scientist because that’s the subject that interested me the most.

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      David Corne answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      For some reason I have always been interested in space. When I was 7 I wanted to be an astronaut. I asked the teacher at School what I would have to do so that I could be an astronaut. By this time, I was already wearing glasses. The teacher told me that she thought astronauts needed to have perfect vision, so I could never be one.

      From that moment on, I have had two goals in life:
      1. To never ever be a primary school teacher, because clearly they are the most evil species on Earth
      2. To become a scientist so that I could figure out a way for people with imperfect eyesight to go into space.

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