What are the characteristics of a good scientist?

Question

What are the characteristics of a good scientist?

Answer 1

being open-minded, curiosity and imagination, and questioning everything you are taught.

Answer 2

An open mind. A love of nature, earth and its creatures.

Answer 3

Scientists come in all shapes and sizes, just like everyone else. What

I think you mean is, "What attitude or aptitude do scientists have?" I think

the short answer is a scientist is always asking: How? Why? does Nature

behave the way it does? This is the distinguishing attitude all scientists

must possess -- it is not like people in other fields do not have these

qualities, though. The education and training of a scientist is important,

but without an inquiring mind, all the education in the world will not produce

a good scientist.

You can get a feel for the answer to your question by looking up thumb-nail

biographies of scientists on the Internet or in resources from your library.

This will give you a picture of the diversity, and the similarities

scientists have.Someone who:

1.  has a passion for learning

2.  has an open mind and is not disabled by boundaries

of thought

3.  can look at situations from many angles

4.  is not frustrated in finding one or several

plausible solutions regardless of the time involved,

and who can use failure to improve future approaches

to problem solving

5.  uses learned knowledge and theories but is not

fully bound by them in facing new situations , i.e.

can think outside the box

6.  can acknowledge input / feelings from others as

one source of information but not be overly swayed by

that input

7.  has at their core a desire to improve the human

condition without adversely affecting the environment

or other living things

8.  is honest in the collection and analysis of data

whether they support his (her) own theories or not

9.  communicates clearly their findings with honesty

as a primary consideration, leaving funding and

politics for others to consider.

I am sure there are other good qualities, some

indication of aptitude or intelligence as well as

working with others without ego which could increase

their effectiveness, but lacking these would not make

them ineffective as a scientist.

Answer 4

Waiting for the opportunity till get recognition for their work.I am the one issued the warning 2 hours before Tsunami struck our coast.Several scientist and seismologists appreciating my inventions among some persons from our meteorological department are criticizing my life saving inventions.Still I am fighting for my right in a polite manner.