Thursday, February 15, 2007

Qualities and skills of a scientist

We have been discussing the essential skills, qualities of a scientist.
Things mentioned were:
  • passion for their topic
  • passion to push beyond current borders
  • curious to find out more
  • independent
  • experimental (rises questions about theory as science...)
  • rationalist
  • realistic
  • but also patient because it might take time
  • smart seems to be an implicite quality
  • creativity (in finding problems or in solving problems?)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Rationalistic is the most important according to me. After that pasion comes.