Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
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Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend all barriers of nationality. It should straddle all faiths, too.
I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.
Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.
Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe.
After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.
Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
Our society, the dominant culture doesn't like science. It doesn't like technology.
Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.
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