What is a scientist?
Being a scientist is being interested in how things really work. In the case of a neuroscientist, how the brain works.
Being a scientist also includes very many other things:
- It takes courage to set a course into the unknown vs. the safe course of elaborating on details that everyone accepts. This is what science is all about. You must at least a little self confidence to think that you will find something that no one found before.
- More importantly it takes courage to know that you might be wrong and knowing that still proceed.
- Most importantly, when you think you have found what you hoped to find, it takes courage to check. We often check when things turn out wrong; wrong in the sense that they were not what we expected. It is equally important to check the things we are certain are right.
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