Why should someone study science?
If you study science then you're qualified to do just about anything. I've always said that if you actually study science you can be anything from a barrister to a bricklayer. There is science in all those things. As a scientist you have to argue your case, like a barrister. Perhaps you're even more important than barristers because they only argue one side of the case, they're only trying to think of what the other guy might try to say. As scientists we look at both sides and make a decision between them as to what is right, not what we can win. What is right has to be right. If you want to build a wall, you have to use science to make sure it's perpendicular, doesn't bend and doesn't fall down. There's plenty to do with a scientific background. If you don't have a scientific background, you're limited. If you're only trained in one way, it's very hard to step outside these subjects. I think being a scientist just qualifies you for everything you possibly want to do, and you can get some of these other skills afterwards. If you want to learn a language, as a scientist you can learn the language in order to do the science, work with the European Space Agency. You could easily learn French, German, Italian - whatever you want to do. In fact, French scientists all learned to speak English because the language of science is English.
