Elise Andrew Quotes

We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.

I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.

Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians.

One of the best and most responsible things a scientist can do is to write for the popular press.

Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.

Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.

Anything that promotes a kernel of science, even though it's exaggerated and hyped by Hollywood, I think is a step forward. We in the ivory tower ultimately have to realize that in some sense we have to sing for our supper.

Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

Almost everyone shuts down when science becomes too technical; you've got to infuse it with entertainment and storytelling to make it effective. From high school on, science is taught in a very dry manner, which isn't as potent.

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.

I hope I have helped to raise the profile of science and to show that physics is not a mystery but can be understood by ordinary people.

I just want to be able to communicate with my fan base.

We have been talking about public engagement for a decade. For me it is about recognising that the mission of science has to be embedded within our culture - the direction in which science is going has to be determined by all of us, and so we need a dialogue with the public.

It's not about how much screen time I have, what matters is reaching out to a huge number of people.

When I tweet, I'm mostly preaching to the choir.

I'd love to present a popular science programme because it's something I feel very passionate about.

The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science.

Being solicited on LinkedIn is a real thing that happens.

Science is not finished until it is communicated.

I want to keep going to new audiences and showing people firsthand how great NJPW is.