• Question: is science hard.

    Asked by bombski to Edd on 10 Jun 2011.
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      Edward Codling answered on 10 Jun 2011:

      This is a really interesting question!

      What do you think? Do you find science hard?

      I think when you study science at school it can come across as a lot of facts that you just have to learn and they don’t always seem to make sense. I prefer to think of science more as a way of thinking. If you are curious about the world and like asking questions (like you are now) then you are doing science! Hence, at the most basic level everyone is already doing science everyday!

      To do science formally (as in running experiments and publishing the results) then it can be hard. It can be frustrating as well, but is is extremely satisfying when something you are studying suddenly starts to make sense and you find out something new (the ‘eureka’ moment). I have done this a few times with some of my studies and it is very exciting…

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