Science goes through fads, and there are big ups and crashes.
From Eric Betzig
I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.
There's always something that an engineer can do to make microscopes better.
It's nice to be able to look at one protein, but life is driven by the interactions between proteins, so it's really essential to be able to see multiple proteins at a time to understand these interactions.
One thing I liked about being in microscopy is it gets you out of your box constantly because there's such a diverse range of applications.
In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies that we see.
You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.
I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.
It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.
Like you can't have a car that can take the kids to schools on Friday and win the grand prix on Saturday, you can't make a microscope that can do it all.
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