Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.
Further, science is a collaborative effort.
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.
Science is a wonderful discipline, to which we are deeply indebted.
Science is what scientists do.
The absolute worst thing that you ever can do, in my opinion, in bringing science to the general public, is be condescending or judgmental. It is so opposite to the way science needs to be brought forth.
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.
Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
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