When my mother knew taht I wanted to study Neuroscience, She put me a video of a series of scientific monologues THEORY THE BIG VAN, scientists on wheels, a program of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology. And I found it very funny and touching ... Why do we want to study science?

 

 A father sent this question to a group of scientists.

I have a teenage son who wants to be a scientist, what would I say?

Well this situation is happening to many parents and good to answer them seek to put ourselves in their shoes to answer them in the same way. It would be something like this:

 

- I come to tell a problem, I have a teenage son who would shame any decent house, do not smoke do not do drugs, do not steal or drink, never stays up late, always pay what you owe, has no tattoos, is a very peaceful type .

-And what is the problem?

Well, you want to be a scientist

Science-is the antidote to superstition, what Adam Smith said and now I tell you

'There you have it is my son, always giving the note, you say? Can you be more stupid?

I only repeat what Newton said before, I want to see the world from the shoulders of giants.

'There you have it is my son Rafa, what about? If even he is wearing glasses.

Socrates said it, and I'm sorry too, you will find happiness in knowledge.

Socrates tell me, because as you will with Greek, why not choose well, Aristotle prefer.

Aristotle ... mathematician, biologist, astronomer, philosopher and epistemologist, was a true sage, it is not at all surprising that it was a paradigm that lasted over a thousand years, from classical Greece to the Renaissance, in the medieval desert oasis knowledge.

But that desert oasis not that I'm saying is that Aristotle Onassis. Clear.

There are a thousand things that will give you more money, more fame, more power, much less worked, broquer entrepreneur, film actor, artist, politician, banker, plumber, footballer.

And put in his room a poster of Leo Messi

But Dad, what I want is to write the thesis.

No waste your energy, I've said a thousand ways.

-The Energy is not spent, only transformed.

'My son, enters reason, want to wake up, is a sensible man, do not make me angry

Dad're talking about fame and money, it's what you want, but not what I want. I tell prose and I tell you in verse, what I want is to understand the universe, to know that the sun rises every morning, predicting the weather for the whole week, cure diseases that attack our bodies, discover the virus, surround antibody, to know why the earth shakes, take action, predict, prevent, in order to save lives, everything that does not make a country of waiters, is not that what I say is that the whole world knows, all that is achieved with hard work, patience ... all that is achieved is achieved with science.

You know I tell Rafa, you know you say. You know I say Rafa, you know you say.

You know I say Rafa, you know you say. Rafa know you say that you are good glasses.