I have expertise in five different fields which helps me to easily understand the analogy between my scientific problems and those occurring in nature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.
It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.
Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level.
Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.
My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
I don't view myself as a practitioner of a particular skill or method. I'm constantly looking at what's the most interesting problem that I could possibly work on. I really try to figure out what sort of scientist I need to be in order to solve the problem I'm interested in solving.
What I am primarily is a neurogeneticist: I use genetics to study problems in neurobiology. The one problem I study primarily... understanding of the sense of touch.