2/ When it comes to systemic, long-term environmental risks and threats, scientists find themselves in a permanently awkward position. Raw data is never prescriptive until it is interpreted by a human, and yet data is not valuable to humans unless it is interpreted.
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3/ Science finds itself inseparable from morality: the genuine scientist must walk a line of “absolute integrity” by clearly emphasizing the limit of his knowledge to the issue at hand. What he admits to not knowing is equally as important as what she declares to understand.
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4/ "If you have a theory, you must try to explain what’s good and what’s bad about it equally. Science teaches standard integrity and honesty."
— @ProfFeynman
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