An example of anthropomorphism in public science & technology discourse:
"Glass wants to be a certain depth. I think it is 6 mills or whatever. If you heat it up it will try and be that, so if the mass is more it will spread out and become 6 mills. If it is less it will turn into a little ball, to try and be that. It has a want, but if you constrict it, and force it, it will do a hell of a lot."
Glassblower
This quote is taken from a BBC Radio 4 documentary radio programme, Vessels of Memory: Glass Ships of Sunderland, presented by Dr Ayako Tani, Assistant Scientific Glassblower at the University of Glasgow. Dr Tani is an artist as well as a chemical glassblower. (The programme explored the community of scientific glassblowers who switched to creating glass models of ships in bottles for the gift shop market when the Pyrex factory closed.)
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