This chapter begins by knocking down the stereotype of science and scientists. A scientist is not just an individual with wild hair, a white lab coat, and large glasses. The scientist is your everyday individual who is striving to learn something new about the world through observation and empirical evidence. And, science is not limited to the lab and only inclusive of biology and chemistry. Rather, science is the study of how and why things in the world function and work the way they do. And this widens science to psychology, music, language, sociology, etc. In a way, we are all scientists. As we go about our daily life, we are constantly observing, conducting virtual experiments, and creating hypotheses.

As the chapter continues, we learn about ways that each of us are involved in science in our lives. There is a way for that initial tad of attachment to science to grow into something much larger. If we nurture our interest and begin to explore more opportunities to learn about this particular field, then we can become a true scientist. We can discover resources, places, and people to help us in our endeavor. And, the end result is that now one can be a part of the science world, even without the lab coat.