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Careers: Why science is neat

One of the great things about science is that you can find out things that no-one else has discovered before.

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Dr Bart Janssen ( Plant & Food Research)

Science is neat in that there are days when you can discover something that nobody else has ever seen before. You can make a connection between the data that you’ve found, and some data in the literature that someone in the U.S. has found, and you can make the connection and say Ah! That’s how it works! That’s the neat thing.

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Rights: The University of Waikato
Published: 19 November 2007
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