The humanities and science must work together if progress is to be made consistently. If we're trying to capture our whale in a huge net, it requires a lot of people closing the net at the same time. Wrighton said the element of change in society is people. Learning and discovery is what research universities do. We teach, we create new knowledge, and we bring the benefits from those activities to society.
People are the teachers.
People are the ones who learn from others. Indeed, I'm an optimist because people are beginning to define the important questions we face.