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Asked by anon-240491 to Tom, Rebecca, Emily, Elspeth, Ben, Antoine on 13 Mar 2020. This question was also asked by anon-240494.
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Ben Cropper answered on 13 Mar 2020:
Probably not! Money is important though, and for a bit more money maybe I would, as long as I got to do something interesting and useful afterwards. If not, I wouldn’t take any money.
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Tom Dally answered on 13 Mar 2020:
Nope! I would just take the money and use it to fund more science 🙂
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Emily Goddard answered on 18 Mar 2020:
Maybe… I don’t know, because I find science fun and wouldn’t like to be cut off from it. £1million would be nice to have though. I’d probably have to retrain to another subject or do lots of volunteering and charity work or I’d get bored!
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Antoine Bourget answered on 19 Mar 2020:
Tough choice, but I think the answer is no, for me. Science is the way I approach the world, and it seems to me I would be a different human being if I gave that up.
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Ben commented on :
Lol I was asking to get dunked on with that response 😂
Ben commented on :
Reminds me of this quote from Einstein (he actually said this one) about Max Planck:
“In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside. Our Planck is one of them, and that is why we love him.
I am quite aware that we have just now lightheartedly expelled in imagination many excellent men who are largely, perhaps chiefly, responsible for the buildings of the temple of science; and in many cases, our angel would find it a pretty ticklish job to decide. But of one thing I feel sure: if the types we have just expelled were the only types there were, the temple would never have come to be, any more than a forest can grow which consists of nothing but creepers. For these people any sphere of human activity will do if it comes to a point; whether they become engineers, officers, tradesmen, or scientists depends on circumstances.”