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Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll.

Something I've figured out after doing science for quite a long time is that science is hard.

It is hard to do it. It is hard to do it well. That's probably not really news. It's not probably something that is very controversial out there. But I wonder if

people appreciate the ways in which it is hard. I mean, of course, the actual doing of the

science can be hard, right? Doing a great experiment, doing a difficult calculation,

if you're a theorist or something like that. But there are all these pre-existing difficulties

that come long before when you get to that, mostly like what problem do you choose to work on?

What is a promising area of research, right? Resources are finite. The time that you

have as a scientist is finite, the money that you have, the students, whatever. You're trying to not

only make a big discovery, but also ensure that there are future discoveries to be made, which is the nice way of

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