I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.
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If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.
We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level.
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.
I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
The fundamental essence of science, which I think we've lost in our education system, is poking something with a stick and seeing what happens. Embrace that process of inquiry.
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.