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The scientists do not get enough help, enough encouragement, to change their field from time to time because the pressure is too high or is to perform something. And once you start in a new field, you are a nobody to start with, you see.

Science has been quite embattled. It's the most important thing there is. An arts graduate is not going to fix global warming. They may do other valuable things, but they are not going to fix the planet or cure cancer or get rid of malaria.

The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.

Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.

Science is the key to our future, and if you don't believe in science, then you're holding everybody back.

The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerful taboos. I believe that the sciences will be regenerated when they are set free.

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.

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.