• Question: if you could meet any famous scientist and chat to them who would it be?

    Asked by dino123aoife to Damien, Rachael, Simon, Suzi, Tim on 16 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Suzi Gage

      Suzi Gage answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      Hi @dino123aoife
      I would like to meet Dr Adam Rutherford (a TV biologist) as he is interested in a similar science to me.

      If I could meet anyone alive or dead I would like to meet the physicist Richard Feynman, as I think he’d be great fun to chat with – he seemed like a really funny and scarily intelligent man!

      Hope this answers your question! 🙂

    • Photo: Damien Hall

      Damien Hall answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      Can I steal that idea? RIchard Feynman would be cool. I am actually reading an article by him about algebra right now (honest!), and Suzi is right – he just puts things in a way that makes you realise exactly why they’re brilliant, and exactly why he’s a scientist.

      Here he is about why he is talking about algebra (which is part of maths) when what he does is physics:

      “science is as much for intellectual enjoyment as for practical utility”
      “the real reason [to study science] is that the subject is enjoyable”

      So there you go – the real reason to be a scientist is because you enjoy it and think it’s interesting.

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