Science and Scientist
Official Audio Prompt
Female: Which one are you going to write more in your book, science or scientists? Male: I do want very much to write something about science, actually. So I prefer to scientists. Female: All right. What's interesting in scientists then? Male: Science is just like complex furniture, which is all about evidence. But scientists can tell stories, do researches and propose questions to find what is true. They are like a focal point. They are always in interesting situations. Female: Whether science or scientists your book mainly about, it seems to be rather hard for general readers to understand, doesn't it? Male: I don't think so, really. In fact the book I write is a science fiction, which is related with science but is not strictly scientific. So you don't have to have a PhD degree in physics or other disciplines to understand a science fiction. And loving science is very different from being a scientist, which means fiction writing is not the same as writing scientific journals. When scientists fail, they will question the situation about why they have failed. But as a fiction writer, I don't have to. In my book, you can always see stories about 'happy family'.
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