Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.
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There can sometimes be this fear among laypeople: 'I don't understand everything in science perfectly, so I just can't say anything about it.' I think it's good to know that we scientists are also confused some of the time.
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists, are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to.
The general public has long been divided into two parts those who think science can do anything, and those who are afraid it will.
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance.
Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science.
If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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