• Question: What inspired you guys to do what you are doing right now?

    Asked by zer0air to Ed, Katie, Sam, Steve, Vera on 17 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by lilsmith, sophc123, barbie, majaxx, rrooo12, izzy28.
    • Photo: Ed Morrison

      Ed Morrison answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      I was inspired to become a scientist and study animal behaviour when I read a book called The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. I recommend it to all my students and I would recommend it to everyone who is getting towards the end of school and is interested science

    • Photo: Vera Weisbecker

      Vera Weisbecker answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      No idea. I always just wanted to be a scientist and I always loved animals so it was pretty clear from very early onwards that I was going to be an animal biologist.

    • Photo: Sam Tazzyman

      Sam Tazzyman answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      I always liked animals when I was young – my Mum and Dad used to take me to London Zoo, which I loved. Then after I finished my maths degree I was excited to realise I could study evolution!

    • Photo: Katie Marriott

      Katie Marriott answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      I had a really good chemistry teacher at school who was extremely enthusiastic and he knew everything! This got me interested in chemistry so I decided to do a degree in it.

      After that I wanted to carry on studying and found the project I am working on now. I have always been interested in space, and the thought of carrying on chemistry and being able to look a “spacey” things was very exciting!

    • Photo: Steven Daly

      Steven Daly answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      There are a number of things. One of them was just looking up at the sky on a dark night and seeing so many stars out there and wondering how they could have formed, and thinking about how massive the Universe truly is.

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