• Question: What is the best thing about Science?

    Asked by mujikinz to Chris, Eva, Michael, Paddy, Philip on 16 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by hemming08m, hopelouisex, patch.
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      Paddy Brock answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      I think the best thing about science is the way that it allows us to demonstrate our understanding. You could spend centuries discussing an idea that can’t be tested. But with a scientific idea, you can test it, re-evaluate it, change it, test it again and so on, until you really start to understand your topic.

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      Chris Jordan answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      Hi mujikinz.
      Science is always interesting, you find out about something, and it leads on to something else, and on and on. You’re always learning something new.

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      Michael Wharmby answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      The best thing about science is being able to question why something happens and then to gather evidence to answer that question and to understand what is happening. Next, the difficult (and most rewarding) bit is to explain it to other people (scientists or people in general) and convince them that what you have seen and understood is what is happening. When someone else sees, understands and appreciates the question and answer that you’ve found, that’s awesome!

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      Philip Denniff answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      The ability to take small bits and pieces that other scientist have discovered, put them together to make something completely new. In a letter to his friend Isaac Newton claimed ‘If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ He was claiming that he was not a great scientist, he just developed the ideas of others.

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