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Even when "play" is defined most broadly it doesn't capture the 
persistence and dedication it takes to be a scientist. For one project I 
got to go on a night cruise of a research vessel on San Francisco Bay. I 
had a blast, and told the grad students on board that I was jealous of 
their opportunities. They let me know very clearly that the next step of 
their study--counting and identifying all every single organism caught 
in our nets--was tedious. Boring. Pretty much the opposite of a playful 
exploration.

That's why I like "A way of looking at the world in which everything has 
to be proved" and the idea that "we do science every time we have even a 
modest plan to try it and see what happens." Science and play overlap, 
but they're not synonymous.

Katherine Ziff
Exhibit Developer
Great Lakes Science Center

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