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Transcript: I think that people with lots of different talents and skills can become scientists. One of the most misunderstood things about science is that people believe that scientists are people with electrical wires and lights flashing in their hair or whatever. And they sit around in their offices and they crab away, or [in] their labs, and they're very solitary kinds of people. But actually, scientists are amongst the most gregarious kinds of people there are — because science is a very interactive business, actually. We talk to the students and the graduate students and the postdocs and the technicians and interact with our colleagues around the world. [It's] a lot of fun to meet all these different kinds of people from different places. [It] involves skills with understanding, being friendly, knowing these people, having a good time with these people, talking to them, cooking them a meal, whatever it is. It's really great to make a big discovery. [O]ne of the most wonderful things that can happen is to find something out that you had no idea that it was going to be there at all. And then, all of a sudden, the entire picture of what we've been interested in for 30 years is completely different. Back to Video Back to Becoming a Scientist Home |
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