Life in Science

"What do you do?" The short answer, in the vernacular of the undergraduates, is that I have not yet declared my major. While I answer to the call of "scientist," like most scientists, I am really just a curious person. I am also a materialist seeking material and knowable answers to my curiosity. I think that most curious people, be they artists, poets, musicians, philosophers or scientists, are simply trying to make sense of a puzzling world... different methods, different databases, but similar questions. Scientists, perhaps, have the good sense to cast their work in ways that are not as massively underdetermined as some other approaches.