• Question: If your dream was to become a musician, why did you become a Scientist?

    Asked by 536terb28 to Philip on 10 Mar 2015.
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      Philip Moriarty answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      I’m not a good enough musician!

      I spent a lot of time in bands as a student in secondary school and then university (both as an undergraduate and when I was doing my PhD). I realised that science was winning out when I used to get irritated that I had to leave the lab to go to band rehearsal…

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