No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll
In the 1970s, we had Carl Sagan, and he was so suave with his turtleneck and his tweed jacket. And he was, you know, he made science look cool. And in punk rock, we haven't had that. We haven't had the Carl Sagan of punk.
So far as education is concerned, it has had a significant impact on a lot of young people who turn to science as a much more exciting and interesting study than they otherwise might have found, entirely as a result of becoming involved with Star Trek.
The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.
I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. [Hawking adopted this statement from a remark made to him by his former post-doc, Nathan Myhrvold.]
Neurohumanities offers a way to tap the popular enthusiasm for science and, in part, gin up more funding for humanities.
I recognize that there's an appetite that I'm now serving, and I'm happy to do so. I think it means quite a bit that science has achieved this level of public interest and access. And so I'm simultaneously astonished every day upon recognizing this, and I think it's a good sign for the country and possibly for the world.
Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.
We need to make science cool again.
I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.
Theorists write all the popular books on science: Heinz Pagels, Frank Wilczek, Stephen Hawking, Richard Feynman, et al. And why not? They have all that spare time.
