• Question: Do you think that you could possibly change the world?

    Asked by anon-200687 to Rosemary, Oliver, Leigh, Jordan, Hannah, David on 6 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: David Walker-Sünderhauf

      David Walker-Sünderhauf answered on 6 Mar 2019: last edited 6 Mar 2019 8:34 pm

      As a researcher, this is definitely my goal! I am working hard to make an impact. Ideally, I’d obviously love to change the world by finding a way to solve the problem of antibiotic resistance – realistically though, it will be more along the lines of helping to change the world by providing an answer to a small piece of a bigger question, and helping other researchers by contributing some knowledge towards a bigger solution.

    • Photo: Oliver Gordon

      Oliver Gordon answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      I’d say the same as David.
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      Science is normally about lots of people making lots of tiny improvements, that together make something that change the world. Every single one of those people are still extremely important though. People have an effect on other people, who effect others. Butterfly effect and all that…
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      I think I will have changed the world if in 80 years’ time people will look at what I did and see it as old fashioned and outdated. Because they wouldn’t have gotten to that point where they have things that are old and outdated if I didn’t do my work!

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