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39 | Bonnie Bassler and living on the edge in a nerdy kind of way

Night Science

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Why Questions Are Motivating You

Bonnie: In a sense these kinds of why questions are motivating you and motivate us to our next experiment which is what we come in here to do. I think having these sort of higher order higher levels sort of why and what if helps you pipette better things more frequently than pipetting things that give you answers that didn't change how you thought about your system. If the answer is not much right then you need to do it right don't do it but that I think is how younger scientists get better and better at it because there's science you can do and there'sScience you should do and they're not always right.

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