Brian J Ford in Who’s Who in Science in Europe
June 17th, 2009
“I find it easier to write a research paper fore a specialist journal than to translate it into terms that the layman can grasp. But it is an important task. We imagine that we have a gap between scientists on one hand and the public on the other. In fact, the gap is between one specialist and another. It is true that the taxi-driver or the architect may not understand the ramifications of molecular biology, but neither does the astronomer, the hematologist or the nuclear physicist. We need to talk to each other, and to embrace the culture of the public.”
