[AstroNet] Academics: forget about public engagement, stay in your ivory towers

[Case Rijsdijk]

Dear Marina,

I agree with you Marina. Here are some relevant quotes:

1    One of the problems of our time is to overcome attitudes that tend to 
justify and reinforce the isolation of the scientific community. We must 
open new channels of communication between science and society. Ilya 
Prigogrine

2    If you can't explain to the public in 15 minutes what it is you are 
doing, then you yourself don't know! Freeman Dyson.

3    “If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it 
yourself."  Albert Einstein

Finally most scientists who are genuinely passionate about their work are 
happy to talk about it - there are of course exceptions! :-)

Kind regards

Case

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