12 Amazing Life Lessons That You Can Learn Through Science

The year was 1928. A scientist walked into his laboratory in London after a two-week vacation with his family.He looked around at the cluttered benches with numerous glassware of different sizes and bottles of chemicals.His attention wandered off to a stack of plates sitting in the corner in a sink.He suddenly remembered his culture plates and reached over to look at them.One of his plates was contaminated with mold.This is not very unusual and most scientists would just toss the plate away shaking their heads in disappointment. But that did not happen on that fateful day.In a brief pause of reflective thought, the scientist could not believe his eyes.Something was amiss. The bacterial cultures that he was growing seemed to have developed halos or areas of no growth where the plates were contaminated with the mold.The scientist was Sir Alexander Fleming and the contaminating mold was a fungus called penicillin.And the rest of the story is history since that was the fateful day when antibiotics were discovered accidentally by a brilliant scientist and saved the lives of millions of humans.Stories such as these abound in science and delight readers and capture their imagination. But is there a common thread of wisdom that we can learn from science?I outline some of major life lessons that that I learned after working for a long time in a laboratory setting and engaging with science research up, close and personal.1. You need to ask the right questionsAnd yes, there are no silly...
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