• Question: what inspired you to be a scientist?

    Asked by anon-205634 to Russell, Kathryn, Jose Angel, Gabriel, Affelia, adeliegorce on 4 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by anon-205632.
    • Photo: Russell Arnott

      Russell Arnott answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I was on the tube in London and there was a sign that said “We’ve only explored 2% of our ocean”.
      i thought, “that’s crazy! how do we not know what’s on our own planet?”

      So i decided to study the ocean so I can help find out more about our ocean

    • Photo: Affelia Wibisono

      Affelia Wibisono answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I read a book when I was six about the planets in our Solar System and that made me realise that there were other worlds out there! I thought I cool would it be to explore those other planets! From then on I wanted to find out as much as possible about them.

    • Photo: Gabriel Gallardo

      Gabriel Gallardo answered on 5 Mar 2019: last edited 5 Mar 2019 3:45 am

      I was a very curious kid growing up. I always asked my dad random questions like, “How does a light bulb work?” or “How do boats float?” and things like that. He never discouraged me from asking questions, he encouraged me to be curious. I also liked watching documentaries as a kid, and I thought science was fascinating.

      Isn’t it cool that, with maybe a few lines of math, you could describe things that happen in nature? You could theoretically use math to figure out how much gas your car needs, or how fast your kettle boils, or how your guitar makes sounds… If we dig deep enough, we might even find out how our universe was made, and the universe will end (if it even ends at all!).

      I also thought this cartoon, Dexter’s Laboratory, was pretty cool as a kid.

    • Photo: Adelie Gorce

      Adelie Gorce answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I’ve always ask myself a lot of questions about the world around me: why is the sky blue? How does a microwave oven work? My parents didn’t know much about science and couldn’t answer all my questions, so I figured I had to find the answers myself!

    • Photo: Kathryn Boast

      Kathryn Boast answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I think I wanted to understand how stuff works – I like having a picture in my head of how things are put together. Studying physics seemed like a good way to try to build up that picture a bit more clearly, understanding what things are made of at lots of different levels. Then when I got to the end of my university degree, I thought it would be exciting to try to do my own research – then I would know something new about the world before anyone else did!

    • Photo: Jose Angel Martinez-Gonzalez

      Jose Angel Martinez-Gonzalez answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      As in the case of Gabriel and Affelia, I was also a very curious child. In my case, I remember a book of astonomy which I kept reading and looking at the pictures. Being a bit older, I had a chemical kit at home similar to this one:

      And another one of metereology, that although it is not this, if that is very similar:

      http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0mDkO58BhxY/TUwrhYFkFDI/AAAAAAAAAIU/660yRDctjxU/s1600/kit-metereologia.JPG

      Also in the school I had some teachers that inspired me to like sciences. We used to do experiments in class, and I keep the notebooks of all those years with a lot of love.

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