say he said here he made a career these impressions part of your fame stems from the fact that you are a scientist who makes science intelligible does it trouble you that to so many people science remains unintelligible that science is something so foreign to people people take some sort of pride and saying oh I know nothing about science I'm really date absolutely science and technology are the key to our civilization I mean look at television look at so much if you look at anything food anything you find we have made a civilization based on science and technology and then at the same time have arranged things so that almost nobody understands science and technology that is a clear prescription for disaster we might get away with it for a while but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is gonna blow up in our faces we must make science and engineering palatable and the thing is it is so exciting it is so stirring and it's exciting listening to you it wasn't exciting in grade NUMBER_TOKEN physics let me tell ya but loads here my experience my experience is you go talk to to kindergarten kids or first grade kids you find a class full of science enthusiasts and they ask deep questions what is a dream why do we have toes why is them around what's the birthday of the world why is grass green these are profound important questions they just bubble right out of them you go and talk to NUMBER_TOKENth grade students and there's none of that they've become legend and incurious something terrible has happened between kindergarten and NUMBER_TOKENth grade and that's not just puberty and you're a nerd if you love science in the NUMBER_TOKENth absolutely absolutely now whatever this is do do and part of it is certainly the fact that grown-ups have not made the excitement of science available to to kids this is really foolish we have in fact beaten science excitement out of kids they start out excited and then we arrange whatever the machinery is for them to wind up not liking it then and this is just so self-destructive for good how do we get it back how do we in view them well that's sort of television television a certainly a very good way to do it the success of cosmos seen in NUMBER_TOKEN countries by NUMBER_TOKEN million people your series on PBS oh that's right I mean who figured it would be so successful and that's and from the letters it's very clear so clear that people hunger they understand that science is essential for their future they understand that decisions are being made using science and technology about their future that they have no control of especially in democracies because they don't understand it they understand that science is reaching out to the deepest questions of origins from the origin of our species and our planet to the origin of the entire universe issues that every human culture has addressed and that we are really finding out the answers to today they want in and the society doesn't provide it schools do not teach it well the media are in many respects hostile to it you see it runs right through the the society and students have a responsibility teachers have a responsibility especially teachers who don't understand the material that they're teaching why is the basketball coach teaching chemistry why is it that very spiffy jackets with the school letter on it that are attractive to members of the other sects are made available to varsity football base ball and basketball teams but not to those who perform extremely well in mathematics or science or history or English who made the decision that these
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