The thing that really makes the pursuit worthwhile is that there’s a truly visceral joy, a sense of excitement and wonderment and pure relief when the data lines up and you realize you’re seeing something that nobody else has ever seen. You think then that maybe, just maybe, science loves you back. That moment is one that hangs suspended, like that brief moment after the first kiss with that one you’ve been chasing for so long, tugging at heart strings and letting you know that it’s all been worth it.Now that I think about it, my relationship with science is very much like a crush. Complete with more teenage pining that I'd ever done as a teenager. (Oh dear God.)
Speaking of which, I think the LooksLikeScience site is a pretty cool profiling of all the types of people who ends up in the scientists. I mean yes there're the dorky bespectacled types, but there are also plant biologists with blue hair and material chemists dressed as bees.
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