Jim Heath Interview: How can I find something that interests me in science?

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Duration: 1 minute and 49 seconds

Country: Sweden

Language: English

License: CC - Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives

Genre: Documentary

Producer: MoleClues TV

Director: Per Thoren

Views: 80 (8 embedded)

Posted by: locumele on Sep 21, 2009

Jim Heath interviewed for MoleClues.org

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We’re faced today with a staggering number of problems, and you can just list them off.
Energy is probably the major one, and it turns out if you solve that, many things will follow,
but there’s healthcare etc., and...
...each one of these has got specific aspects of it.
Spend some time and learn about it...
and if you can’t find a piece of one of those types of problems that you...
...want to sink your teeth into,
if you can't do that then you probably shouldn’t get involved in science,
because my goodness that’s about as rich of an area as one can possibly think.
And right now we have an amazing set of tools, and amazing capacity to...
...study these things and use our science to change the world we live in.
So I would suggest, to anybody who wants to get into it:
Pick a big problem, begin to dissect it into its various components and think:
I think I have an idea here, I would like to learn more about this and begin focusing.
Sometimes it looks like the atmosphere of science is just...
...all the stuff happening all the time, too fast.
It’s not. It turns out, science does move forward, but...
...from an invention to a technology that comes out in the marketplace, it’s generally 15 years.
So I think it just seems like it moves fast, when you’re looking on the outside.
On the inside, you get involved in some of these deep problems.
I know it can be tremendously exciting, but you have to find something you really believe in.

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