• Question: which science is the best, physics, chemistry or biology?

    Asked by maebrett to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 15 Mar 2012.
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      Leila Battison answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      I think the best kind of science is Geology, because it includes a bit of all the different types of science. I think you can only do Geology at A-level though 🙁

      I preferred biology at school though, and that’s why i’m doing palaeontology now, because it is geology with extra biology!

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      Catherine Rix answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      I like all of them. I think they are all related, so understanding one can help you understand the others too

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      Adam Stevens answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      Well,

      Biology is applied chemistry
      Chemistry is applied physics (or at least quantum physics)
      Physics is just applied maths
      Maths is just a language developed to help with physics

      So physics 🙂

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      Karen Masters answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      Of those three I always liked physics best because it seemed at school there was less to learn and more to understand – if you just remembered a few equations and principles you could work the rest out. While chemistry had lots of remembering elements, and biology seemed to have tons of remembering things.

      In some ways Physics is more fundamental too – meaning if you keep asking the why of something in biology or chemistry you’ll eventually hit physics (everything is made of atoms for example).

      My favourite application of physics is astronomy of course. 🙂

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      Nazim Bharmal answered on 15 Mar 2012:

      Actually, all the sciences meet quite often and you can learn a lot about doing one by doing the others. You get subjects at university called bio-chemisty, bio-physics, and physical chemisty.

      Don’t forget all the other sciences like Geology (-> Leila) or Material Sciences (which will be the discipline that invents the super strong cable we need to make a space elevator).

      But I wasn’t good at Biology (I find it hard remembering all those names), and Chemistry was too messy, so I chose Physics. (In fact, at school I did two Physics exams in my 6th form, an A-level and a S-level which was for those who were extra keen. They might still do them, it is worth asking if you are doing AS right now.)

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