By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.
Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value.
We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against poverty, illness, disease and give us more democracies, and democracies never war with other democracies, but the other side of the sword could give us nuclear proliferation, biogerms and even forces of darkness.
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
As scientists, we need to not be afraid of the truth.
Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level.
We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.