• Question: Why did you chose Science? Why not Maths?

    Asked by taraedmonds to Ben, Dave, Ed, Sam, Susana on 18 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Benjamin Hall

      Benjamin Hall answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      Maths is a science, in my opinion.

      I didn’t ever pursue maths as a pure academic discipline because I’m not interested in it and not good enough at it.

      I still have to use it in my research though, no science can work without maths.

    • Photo: Ed Lowe

      Ed Lowe answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      I can’t speak for everyone, but my feeling is that almost all scientists do choose maths at some level.
      I think of maths as both the language that we use to communicate our results and one of the main tools we use to arrive at our results in the first place.
      Thanks to our easy access to computers sciemtists don’t need to do all our own calculations anymore, but we do need to know enough to tell them what to do and recognise whether what they are tellimg us is sensible or not.

    • Photo: David Briggs

      David Briggs answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      I’m not at good as maths as I am at science.

      But I wish I’d done more maths.

    • Photo: Sam Horrell

      Sam Horrell answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      I would also argue that maths is a science, maybe even the purest form of science. That being said, maths above A level was scary and confused me. I have friends that went on to do it at university and loved it but its just not for me. I mush prefer working with bacteria and proteins.

    • Photo: Susana Teixeira

      Susana Teixeira answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      Maths was my second choice when I applied to University courses. I liked it a lot, but I did not want to drop Chemistry and Biology so I thought it was a good compromise, given that you need Maths in other areas too.

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