I think I’m a little in love with Professor Lawrence M. Krauss, chair of physics at Case Western Reserve University and author of The Physics of Star Trek.

He says in an August 2004 Scientific American interview:

…science is not done in a vacuum. It is done in a social context, and the results of science have important implications for society, even if it is simply providing a general understanding of how we humans fit into the cosmos.

Thus, simply producing new knowledge, without making any attempt to help disseminate it and explain it, is not enough. I think one cannot expect every scientist to spend time on the effort to explain science. But in a society in which the science is of vital importance and also in which many forces are trying to distort the results of science, it is crucial that some of us speak out.

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