I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.
I am not a farmer; I am a researcher who studies the plants that come to your dinner table, which means that I ask questions for a living.
What are the important problems of your field?
A good scientist can understand the current state of a field, pick interesting questions where a success will actually lead to useful new knowledge, and push that field further through their work.
I think that too ended up affecting a lot of the different research questions that I later asked was really was about well to what extent... How do we balance choice as possibility and choice as limitations?
Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.
And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.
The questions that we scientist have about Saturn's rings are the questions that an ordinary person might be moved to ask when first seeing them, you know. What caused them? How did they get there? How long have they been around? How long are they going to last?
Before writing, I start with a series of questions, specific things I need to know before I can write the book... That list grows and changes as I do more and more research. But when I've answered the bulk of the questions, I begin to write.
