You like science but it is hard to learn why?

Answer 1

Science requires linear and logical thinking. This is counter to most other life experiences like socializing, entertainment, manual labor, etc.

The more complicated topics in science require a firm founding in the basics and are unforgiving in only a causal founding.

So the quick answer is patience, logical thinking, and consistency are key traits for anyone to pursue the topics of science.
If you are looking up this question, then you are probably a frustrated student. Perhaps you are in secondary school (high school) or the first years of university and are taking your first real science class. To give you a simple answer, science sucks because it is hard. It doesn't just take brains to become a scientist, it takes lots and lots and lots of sweat and tears. You could have the mental capacity of Einstein, and still easily flunk out of chemistry or physics. Movies and television like to show the "genius" that can magically come up with an answer to some sort of scientific question. This does not exist. Science is not magic. Even if you have the IQ of a so called "genius", science can make you feel like a failure as you pound away at your experiments. It's long, it's tedious, and it's difficult. The people who become world renown in their field are not necessarily geniuses. They either had really spectacular graduate students (slave labor, see below) or they are masochistic, motivated and obsessed.

Perhaps you are not in your first years of science. Perhaps you are a disgruntled graduate student in your third or fourth year. You are making 25 grand a year where you are expected to work more than 80 hours a week. Your advisor probably treats you like dirt and if you get injured, you can't even get workers compensation, because technically you are not even considered an employee, you are considered a "student" even though you are not taking classes and are more or less teaching yourself stuff that your advisor couldn't do. You are more than likely living on Raman noodles and watching all of your friends get good jobs, get married, buy a house, have children. If you are a female science grad-student, you have to contend with the fact that when you graduate, you will only have ~ 7 years left to have a child before getting into the 1 in 4 MR baby range (if you go the academic route, 2 of those 7 years will be used up as a post-doc, and the next five will be entirely in pre-tenur territory. Basically, no job security. Who would prefer raising a child with no job security?). You go to work everyday expecting failure, because 9/10 times your experiments will fail (if they are worthwhile at least. Anything that is easy has already been done or is uninteresting.) And the onlything you have to look forward to, the only reason why you do all this is to have that one good day when you figure out where a minute piece of the puzzle goes to answering some question about nature or solving some global challenge.

So, that pretty much answers why science sucks.

Answer 2

One cannot learn Science.

Science is not about knowing things but more about their discovery. You can learn principles of Science or some formulae but in the end it all comes down to understanding rather than knowledge.

Science involves complex ideas and things that are difficult to understand. So do other subjects such as Philosophy, but the fact that Science often involves numerical examples makes it more difficult for people with less mathematical minds to understand it.

Answer 3

Because the material is hard. I feel that English and Social Studies are easier than math and science because they are more creative and you get to write. In Math and Science the material is harder and confusing for people who aren't interested or don't understand.

Answer 4

most things like physics and chemistry. it all gets harder when middle school starts. especially high school