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科大科 學 家問與答

Could you offer some advice to secondary school 您能對有志於修讀科學的中學生給予一些意見嗎？
students who are interested in pursuing education
in science?
曹圭鵬教授：

Prof. Gyu-Boong Jo: 我知道在香港，很多學生對於學習科學都是有興趣的。但
同時，我也意識到他們可以對未來作出很多不同的選擇。我的
I know in Hong Kong, there are many students who are
interested in science. But at the same time, I realized there 建議是在選擇某個學習階段（例如大學）修讀的科目是重要的，
are many other possibilities that they can take for their life. 但這未必是決定你一輩子的事。最終，你會發現無論你當初在
My advice is that choosing the subject(s) in a particular stage 中學或大學選擇的是什麼科目也好，一切都只與你曾接受怎樣
(e.g. college) is important but that may not be your final 的教育（編按：意指在修讀不同的科目時，我們會接受到不同方
destination. Eventually, it doesn’t matter what you studied in
your secondary school or college, but it’s all about how you 式和風格的訓練，這可能最終影響一個人思考的角度和方法）
are educated and how you solve the problems you face in your 和你如何解決在你範疇中遇到的問題有關。學習科學是其中一
field. Studying science is one of the good and efficient ways 個非常好而且有效的訓練方法去提升你解決問題的能力。
to train and educate yourselves that improves your problem-
solving skills. 我的建議非常簡單：請做任何你想做的事情，而如果你覺得
科學是有趣的話，請追隨你的興趣並把你的能力提升到極致。
My advice is very simple: please do whatever you want,
and if you find science interesting, please pursue your interest 最後，你如果發現你其實對於其他領域更感興趣時，你也能夠
and push the limits of your skills. At the end, even if you find 輕易地轉到其他領域。
that you are more interested in other fields, you can easily
move on. 劉振鈞教授：

Prof. Stanley Lau: 別害怕會是我想要講的重點。這會需要很多努力因為你身

Don’t be afraid! It takes a lot of efforts because there are 邊會有很多分散你注意力你的事物。別害怕去犧牲：為了學習
so many distractions around you. Don’t be afraid to sacrifice; 科學，你需要放棄很多花在其他事物上的時間。你勢必得為此
to study science, you have to sacrifice a lot of your time from 做好準備，然後對人生中的每一部份進行取捨。另外，也別害怕
other things. You need to be prepared for that and strike a 去犯錯，因為犯錯是科學之旅必經的一部分。如果你能夠好好
good balance between different aspects of your life. Don’t be 「運用」這些錯誤，你一定會學到一些什麼，並發現這會使你通
afraid of making mistakes too, which is a part of the journey.
If you are able to “make use” of the mistakes in a correct way, 往成功。上述便是我的建議。
you would actually learn something so that the mistakes are
the stepping stones to your success. That is all of my advice.

Visit our website at sciencefocus.ust.hk to read the complete interview with the two scientists!
請瀏覽《科言》網站 sciencefocus.ust.hk，閱讀兩位科學家的完整專訪！

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