afternoons
surely you are now
asking but why would I want
dedicate myself to science or maybe even
that is the science and I see them I see in
their faces that are passing them million
reasons why according to your
training or the best your training
at school they are told they should not
engage in something that sounds like science to them
I’m going to ask only because I’m
many reasons occur but let’s see
three nothing but raise your hand to
who have crossed their heads
that science is very difficult
dedicate to something in science
very difficult
ok not so many that well that is boring
no one is more difficult than boring
it’s good because it’s usually a bit
the other way around or maybe you can
they would like to have a life
no no ok
well this is like a conception
I think a little wrong see us from
a different way they have us as
excluded a bit from society and I
I think it should not be like us
as scientists we can have
several objectives that surely you
have managed and what are we
isolated that maybe we are a little
Crazy people always see us with robes and
so then these stereotypes are
they are losing especially because
usually on TV in the movies
They put us with a stereotype like that
not like this one because I think I have
some colleagues who may enter
in these definitions we do not all have
these characteristics we share
some but fortunately not all
yes because if we have that
innate curiosity to ask us how
the world works
why is it so difficult to engage or
think about dedicating yourself to science
you will remember that since they are
Children always wondered things are
they asked one and a thousand times how
the world works what is happening
etcetera as for example you know
that there is a series of
technological advances in which
they apply day by day not like cells
photovoltaic that can have on your
calculator waves can have then
probably in their homes if the other
another of the advances of science
it could be that maybe it does not sound like
so much is the internet
right now many young people are
connected to and on social networks in
anywhere in the world but what
believe
in addition to being connected in the networks
social the internet also serves to
educational issues you could
learn from any subject with the
best teachers in the best
universities through the internet and
this is now possible and at best
right now they are wondering good
have these things in common that I
It is saying not solar cells
in photovoltaics
maybe the last revolution in
biology or the internet is that they believe
they have more things in common than they
we start thinking at first sight
that someone or some asked
how some worked this is
scientific development of many people
on many levels and they asked and
They were curious to know how
things worked then now
Well let’s go a little watching
since children turn us off this
curiosity they will remember that they were told
that they had to eat the vegetables and
you told me but why are
eat and usually us when
we have children we give an explanation of
what then because they are good
vitamins and minerals that make
grow big and strong but for the
children having an option like this
or like this one we seem much more
funny that they trade the vegetables
also there comes an avalanche
of questions like how do the
plants or because the sky is blue or
Why we can not breathe underwater
or because the moon does not fall on us
every night and a question that
surely they were already made
some of you are still doing how
the children are made
then I want to share with you
that each one of us can have and
has that curiosity that probably
he left it forgotten
as we were growing and this because
what because this whole avalanche series of
questions so we can have
answers as adults maybe not
so satisfying for a child because
surely we do not have all the
answers and then we could
tell them
because that’s the way things are still
even because I say so
and then from getting
answers as one leaves it and as a
little relegated their curiosity or conform
grows one thinks that he should already know
everything and then we are forgetting this
part that is innate to the human being that is
ask how things work and
how the world works, I will give them and
I ‘m going to give you a push to see if the
I convince that curiosity if gay and
we can cultivate and dedicate ourselves to the
science is the best way to do it
science provides us with elements to
follow us asking questioning how
the world works and it does a
systematic way and a way that is
ascertainable
then some features
some virtues to dedicate ourselves to science
is that science is a challenge is a challenge
that does not bore because every time
We have a new question and we look for
a new solution because no more arise
and more and more questions
We are also at the forefront of the
Information abandonment of information
because to be at the forefront that
mean the ideas are global
we have a question we are
solving a problem and that are being
asking anywhere in the world
we are competing against a whole
series of people who are asking
things and that keeps us up to date and
also that keeps us on the day
it keeps us the day receiving young people
like many of you in the laboratory
that see life differently yes and that
they are in contact with what happens in the
day by day
so this I do want to think so
it’s like the portrait of dorian gray we
permanently keeps young people not
because the students arrive and leave and
come young people who have that vision of
what happens now in the world also
these characteristics or these
qualities of dedicating ourselves to science
another one is that it gives us approaches
different from both colleagues and
same students
everyone has an opinion and each one
see the world differently
then with these approaches we can
enrich what we think
about the phenomena and we
critical thinking development
what is this because it pulls better
thankfully unfortunately
some of you know someone who
the sciences are dedicated
this critical thinking is not left in
the laboratory
kept I do not know critical thinking it
use in daily life
then we can and we are always
questioning everything he tells us and that
I think it’s something very valuable to say
why is this
explain me to see why they are happening
these things also allows us
teaching is something fundamental and
wonderful when one tries to explain
things is when one realizes
if he understands it or does not understand it and how
can you pass it on to others
then part of our challenge and part
of our scientific work is
teach others what it is that
we are doing
also because it gives us life options
if I do science in a genuine way
verifiable criticism I can make it here
or anywhere in the world and that
allows then nothing else to be in your
instead I can move from one place to another
finally, I say it’s very
fun is very funny because we
allows to pose the challenges and those challenges
they also help us when the
things are the experiments we can not
explain what we are seeing how
we have preconceived
it generates frustration does not believe much the
frustration that is generated when one is
realize that things are not or are not
they explain how one thought but that
It also allows us more and more
set new goals and this part the
frustration makes us grow as
people and could serve them talking and
talking about many virtues that the
science but I think one of them
it has to do a lot with the
empowerment of society
if you maybe do not see them as
convinced or maybe go here
go running to sign up for a race
scientific that is but if they are not going to
doing that is at least it would be
very nice that they get involved in
scientific issues because that to the
make it part of society we can
have or have tools that we
allow you to take better options and
believe me that the field in which
develops science not just about
my area biology but all many
other areas of science as it is
immense
For example, he will give you three examples
of the last thing that has been done in
biology
I do not know if you know that they are more
bacteria and microorganisms that human
we are full on the skin in the
intestines in many other parts of
our body of microorganisms and
right now and a project called the
project of the human microbiome that what
who are trying is to understand how
it affects what kind of organisms
we have the health of the human being
now we can also edit genomes
we can through molecular scissors
very very small to the best remove a
fragment of information that was not the
appropriate and put a fragment of
adequate information and what will be
a revolution in the coming years
it’s personalized medicine
that personalized medicine would have to
be predictive and I would have to have
surely you will have seen in your
families
we do not all respond in the same way
neither to diseases nor to
solutions or drugs that give us
We are sometimes different doses or
different compounds to deal with
the same disease
so then in a few years now
then we will have access
surely to this part of science
what would predictive medicine be
finally I want to leave you with this
image appeal to what they have saved
hidden I know it’s there I can
see in your kart that your curiosity
their curiosity like when they were children
when they went out to the field they saw
they explored that curiosity believe me if the
they go back to recount to rediscover forgiveness
we will be happy, he will see the
world will be to see the world of another
way and I think it ‘s an idea that
we can share here
thank you very much
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