• Question: Have you always liked science, even at school? (:

    Asked by pigsgokwak to Charlie, Eoin, Jemma, Julian, Steve on 14 Mar 2011.
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      Eoin Lettice answered on 12 Mar 2011:

      Hey.
      As predictable as this is going to sound, yes I always liked science in school – some subjects more than others though.
      I really enjoyed biology and went on to do my degree in plant biology but I also loved physics at school. I think I liked the way that physics was so logical and mathematical.
      Chemistry, on the other hand, was never my thing! It’s not that it wasn’t interesting, I just found it really difficult! Over the years, I overcame my fear of chemistry a little bit 🙂
      What are your fave science subjects?

      Eoin

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      Charlie Ryan answered on 13 Mar 2011:

      hi pigsgokwak nice question and good name!
      i guess my answer is simply yes. i’ve always had an interest in science, even when i was small. It wasn’t like i had an ambition to win a Nobel prize though – more like “i think i’d like to study/work with this next”, and that’s just led me on the scientific route.
      Science is fascinating, and it’s always a joy to understand something, no matter how small that is! At school i guess it was my favourite subject, altho i liked cooking aswell (which had the crazy name of food technology!). Sadly my cooking skills are absolutely rubbish now!

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      Stephen Moss answered on 13 Mar 2011:

      Yes, though I must admit I found science at school rather dull (hope my old teachers don’t read this). And in those days my interest in science was stimulated more by people like David Attenborough and the great novels of Gerald Durrell – so it was the natural world and zoology that got me going. These days science teaching is so much better (I see what my teenage son and daughter are learning), and the books are fantastic – Stephen Hawking, Bill Bryson etc.

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      Julian Rayner answered on 13 Mar 2011:

      Yes, always have. Probably wasn’t my favourite subject until my last year at high school, but then I had a great biology teacher who got me really interested – I remember a topic about human evolution in particular. Then at university I took a course in genetics and molecular biology, and I was sold.

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      Jemma Ransom answered on 14 Mar 2011:

      Not really, at school I really didn’t enjoy science lessons and I didn’t feel that I was any good at them, I wasn’t very good at maths either and I thought this meant I couldn’t be a scientist. It all started to change around year 9 when I had a really good teacher Mrs Ball and things just started to click. I then went on to do seperate science GCSE’s and science A levels.

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