Dr. David Allison

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936 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 31 Mar

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All you gotta do is this.

Your question is an enjoyable one for me because it allows me to sort of think about tying the two paths of my life together.

And I think one of them is it's just who I am.

You know, I sometimes get asked, how did you choose to become a scientist?

And I say, there's no choice.

Choice had nothing to do with it.

I never chose to become a scientist.

Uh, from the earliest I can remember as a little kid, when I could speak, I would ask questions.

I was the kid in the backyard who liked to turn over the rock and say, what's under here?

How did it get there?

What does it do?

How does it eat?

How does it live?

And sometimes people would give me answers, adults.

And then I often had the temerity to say, how do you know?

And are you sure?

which didn't always please adults, and it doesn't always please them today when I say things like that.

But it does tend to please people who are true scientists in this period, because that's what scientists do.

They ask those questions.

And so that's part of me.

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