• Question: how can you be inthusiastic and lazy they are oposite things

    Asked by alewis7 to Dave on 19 Nov 2013.
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      David Christensen answered on 19 Nov 2013:


      I wrote that because I think I am quite enthusiastic about science and about talking to people about science. I enjoy thinking about science and the experiments I’m going to do. But, at the same time, when I actually have to do the experiments, I can be a bit lazy. Maybe enthusiastic was the wrong word and I should have said something like passionate or inquisitive. I think a passion for science and talking about science or an inquisitiveness (is that a word?) into the world around us are similar to the enthusiasm that I feel for science and that was what I tried to say. I hope this makes sense!

      I don’t think enthusiastic and lazy are opposites as I might just be enthusiastic when it comes to the idea of lying around watching tv all day, but that would basically be quite lazy!

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