Robert Winston argues that scientists need to understand how their work will be seen by society at large
THIS year sees the 50th anniversary of C. P. Snow’s influential on , in which he argued that the breakdown of communication between the sciences and the humanities was a major hindrance to solving the world’s problems. One of his premises – that those problems would be solved by better science – now seems a little naive. However, his point that the sciences and humanities need to learn to communicate better, and people to understand each other…
