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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
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.
The process of science is difficult and challenging. It involves always being aware that your ideas might be right or they might be wrong. I think it's that kind of balance that makes science so interesting.
If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.
Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.
One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.