• Question: how does having good knowledge of science have an impact on your job

    Asked by xxx_Sidtheultimateswaglord3000_xxx to Hephzi, Imogen, Tom on 19 Mar 2015.
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      Thomas Barrett answered on 19 Mar 2015:

      Hey 🙂

      Yes I think it does, but not in the way that you may think. Yes it’s great to just be able to remember everything and work it out, but my memory is terrible 😛 so that doesn’t work for me. Being a scientist doesn’t need to be about being really smart (although that would help) it’s about knowing where to look to find the answer you need and putting in the hard work.

      Being able to remember loads of facts and maths is useful but if you can’t work out how to find the answer to a new problem all of that knowledge isn’t really helpful.

      I wouldn’t say I am smart, I would say I am very good at working out where I can find the answer and I work very hard.

      So if you’re worried about not being smart enough to do science just remember what Albert Einstein said “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

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      Hephzi Tagoe answered on 19 Mar 2015:

      When you start working you’re expected to know all the basic science stuff and then you wish you had paid more attention in class. lol.
      Having a good fundamental knowledge of science makes it easier to understand how to run your experiments, what you expect to happen and to interpret what is happening with your results. It also helps to figure out what’s gone wrong when things don’t work. At least some of the time.

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