Should a multi-disciplinary point of view on sciences be a good incipit?
In fact, this should be the topic of this blog - science - this is what we do, or at least we try to.
If you are a scientist, or you wanted to be one in your childhood, you will understand what follows: do you remember, when in the primary school somebody asked you "what would you like to be when you are grown-up?", and you thought "I will be a chemist/biologist/physicist/..., I will discover the wonderful secrets of the world and make the difference in other people's life"? OK, this is how it was for me, and my childhood dream became reality (even if yes, I am discovering some secrets, but how they change the other people's life is still a question mark... ), and I became what I am now, perhaps not a full scientist, but working - sometime this means living, actually- in a hi-tech, high level Scientific Institution, where X-rays are created by electrons running along a ring - it's a synchrotron radiation source!
Working in science, there is something new to learn almost every day: one of the first lessons I got when I started working here, is that something exciting was missing in my romantic, childish idea of being a scientist: there is more material for a sociological analysis in a lab, than somebody that has never entered one can guess.
Some say scientists are eccentric - well, you don't know how eccentric they can be...
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