"Young people with minds ready to be moulded should study science as there are plenty of opportunities to do fun experiments and blow things up!"

Sarah Moss, Year 8 pupil, Nottingham

"I remember doing an experiment at school where if it went wrong, it formed a really big flame. After that, I always wanted to do science. You got away from your desk and got to use unusual and exciting things. I was always best at science."

Stuart Reid, Chemistry Postdoctoral Researcher, Southampton

"Paying attention in science can sometimes help you in other activities that you wouldn’t expect such as cooking. An understanding of how certain things mix and react together can be the difference between making mayonnaise or a horrible mess, or making lumpy or perfect gravy or even cooking with chocolate!"

Science Graduate, Nottingham

"To perform experiments that have never been performed by anyone else in the world can be a very exciting thought."

Peter Clark, Postgraduate Inorganic Chemist, Nottingham