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Asked by jasmine248 to Nick, Lilly, Francesca, Deepak, Alan on 12 Mar 2014.
Question: What is the best thing about your work that makes you want to do it ?
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Lilian Hunt answered on 12 Mar 2014:
Knowing that I’m helping people in the long run with my research is an incredible feeling. I love the journey to discovery and whether I find something or not I get to say that I’ve added to medical research and that is a great feeling 🙂
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Alan Fitzsimmons answered on 12 Mar 2014:
When you do a science experiment or calculation, most times you don’t know what you will find. You might expect a result, but if you do the science right sometimes you find something new.
That’s the best thing about science for me – finding new stuff! For example, I’m in a team of scientists that measured how fast an asteroid was rotating. When we did the calculations we could only understand them if the asteroid was made of two different rocks stuck together!
You can read about it here:
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Francesca Day answered on 12 Mar 2014:
It’s great when I get to find out things that no-one else knows yet! Also, my research means I always have something interesting to think about 🙂
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Deepak Kar answered on 12 Mar 2014:
I get do what I love, meet some amazingly smart people, and get to travel around the world to present my results!
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Nick Wright answered on 13 Mar 2014:
I love the feeling that ever day I go into work there’s a chance I’ll discover something totally new and awesome that might be a really important discovery that people remember for years! And even if that doesn’t happen very often its great to go into work each day to learn something new! 🙂
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jasmine248 commented on :
The asnwers are amazing. I used to think that Science is just about experiments and travelling, but now I know that it’s more than that! Thank you a lot!