• Question: What do you prefer Biology, Chemistry or Physics and why?

    Asked by cadence to Paul, MarthaNari, Jonny, Hannah, Alison on 15 Jun 2015. This question was also asked by Shekinah.
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      Jonny Brooks-Bartlett answered on 15 Jun 2015:

      Maths!

      If I had to pick one I would probably say biology but that’s closely followed by Physics.

      I pick biology because it’s fascinating. Let’s think about the body. When you cut yourself your wounds heal. Do you know any man-made material that heals when it breaks? An octopus can squeeze it’s entire body through a hole a fraction of it’s size. Have you ever tried to squeeze an iPhone through a hole half of the size of the iphone and then see the iPhone come out the other side unbroken?
      Biological organisms can do the craziest things. Nature is crazier than fiction and trying to write maths to explain it is incredibly challenging but very fun.

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      Alison Whitaker answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      Well, I would pick Biology because there is so much we don’t know about who we are and the world around us. But there are lots of disciplines that cross sciences, and generally the research I find most interesting are those that combine different sciences. Take nutrition as a simple example, when we cook something, that is chemistry, but the way those things interact with our body is biology. I like understanding how sciences are combined.

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      Paul Brack answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      I prefer chemistry (obviously!) because it allows us to make materials which we can then use to make our world better. Biology, Physics and Maths are really important to, of course!

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      Martha Havenith answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      Well… I stopped taking Physics and Chemistry classes in high school… that was more down to some sadly unpleasant teachers though then anything else, I would love to know more about those fields now! The reason I like biology is because there seems to be more unexplored territory. Both in Physics and Chemistry we seem to have some pretty good basic rules of how things work. In Biology, things are often a lot messier and less clear-cut – and some bits like the brain have simply not been researched long enough to find the basic rules even if they exist. I kind of like that.

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