Premio Pezcoller 2017. Intervista ad David Morse Livingstone, vincitore del premio.

Title: Premio Pezcoller 2017. Intervista ad David Morse Livingstone, vincitore del premio.

Length: 00:05:11.57

Location: Hotel Trento, Trento

Publication day: venerdì 5 maggio 2017

Registration day: venerdì 5 maggio 2017

Premio Pezcoller 2017. Intervista ad David Morse Livingstone, vincitore del premio:

"Give a scientist the best opportunity to be successful, come in really four varieties. One is patience, the willingness to see once experiments fail, but to learn from the failure how to do it right, and not have them feel anymore. That takes patience. It may take years fotùr the most important experiments. Second is creativity because creativity, which is not something you can learn, is something that you can watch embodied in the work of a great scientist,
as many of us saw when we were much younger in our scientific career. So seeing great creativity at work is inspiring. That's number two.
Number three is rigor. Scientists know there is only one truth. Not two, not one and a half. There are not alternative facts. There is only one scientific fact at the time in answering a given scientific question or a collection of facts at a given time, that have to be proven to be true by rigorous science, no other way. And then finally, there is what we call a sense of adventure, like an explorer. Scientists are explorers in the sense they asked questions that embody their curiosity, and in the end the more adventurous a scientist is, assuming that she or he is rigorous, creative, and “on point” as we would say in English, then a sense of adventure allow a scientist to enter a line of investigation that is much more productive than she or he might never have imagined. Those are the four."