• Question: What makes you so passionate about your work?

    Asked by to Kieren, Rowena, Roy on 20 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 20 Mar 2014:

      I suppose in many ways you have to be passionate and determined to “survive” science – it can let you down a lot. Experiments often don’t work or give boring results. The only way to get to the really exciting results is try again and try something new. Any ideas that science is rigid and about true/false stuff is wrong – science is very creative, very changeable, often has more than one interpretation or answer. It keeps you on your toes – like chasing rainbows. You might not get the pot of gold, but you get to see some amazing and beautiful colours.

      The thing I love about science is that amazing feeling of discovery. And that feeling “I made that. I did that.” I like the investigative way of thinking like a scientist because you can look at something seemingly mundane and pull out something exciting. I never know what’s coming next when I look at science and yet I know what does happen can make a big difference in the real world!

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