Please, no one ever tell me this again.
When I tell people that I’m majoring in molecular biology, I usually get a response that’s something like this: “I could never do biology.” Or worse: “I could never do science.”
This seems to be a common response that people in the sciences get when they talk about how they spend their time in school or at work. My friend who majors in psychology, my editor who has a physics degree, my high school mentor with a doctorate in neuroscience—they all tell me that they get some version of the “that would be too hard for me!” response when they share their credentials. I’m graduating soon, with the intention of staying in the biology world.
We tend to think of a “scientist” as someone who knows everything there is to know about their field—think the super-geniuses with 7 PhDs like Bruce Banner, or House MD coming up with correct diagnosis after correct diagnosis out of seemingly nowhere, or Isaac Newton inventing an entire branch of math. In this view, a scientist is someone who has forgotten more than most people will ever know. Yes, two of the people in that list are fictional.
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