A quote from theoretical physicist, Sean Carroll, talking with Ira Flatow on Science Friday.
Ira: Sean, I’m wondering how you spend your time. I mean, do you sit there thinking big thoughts with a pencil and piece paper?
Sean: Well that is my day job, yes. That’s not the only thing I do, but I am a theoretical physicist so I don’t look through telescopes or build equipment. I don’t even do computer simulations. I leave that to my graduate students. And I sit there in Starbucks or at the wine bar with a pencil and paper and I, you know, draw pictures and draw equations and try to see how to fit different ideas together. Happily, you know, it’s actually a very social occupation where we work together and we bounce ideas off each other so it’s a lot of fun.
Sit around talking physics, drinking wine, doing some math. File this under jobs to do in future lives.
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