• Question: what is your main goal in your career as a scientist?

    Asked by saskia123 to Zachary, Venus, Tim, Kristian, Joel on 15 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Tim Hollowood

      Tim Hollowood answered on 15 Nov 2013:

      Actually my main goal is little bit selfish because I just want to understand how things work at the basic level. If I don’t understand something it bugs me and I have to keep picking away at it till I do. Fortunately someone pays me to do this….how nice is that.

      Along the way though I have realised that communicating the subject to others is very important and satisfying and that’s what I am trying to do here!

    • Photo: Zachary Williamson

      Zachary Williamson answered on 15 Nov 2013:

      My main goal is to do add something to the sum total of all human knowledge. Sounds a bit grand, but that is after-all what I’m paid to do! I also have a strong desire to talk about science to non-scientists and get them enthusiastic about it.

    • Photo: Kristian Harder

      Kristian Harder answered on 15 Nov 2013:

      I just want to have an interesting life. 🙂
      (Which is not necessarily much different from what Tim and Zachary say, because learning to understand how things work can make quite an interesting life.)

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