But scientists are not important for what they feel....as Leonard has said.
Then of course you criticise belief but how does Harrison know he is right....even if he were as I suspect merely a naturalist taking the piss out of pantheism?
Some of them are ( important for their emotions), and their imagination.
For those of us who are not mathematical geniuses
their expression of wonder and awe, give us some idea of what their research is about.
Just recently I visited and saw the big telescopes on the top of la Palma.
I didn't go inside, but I found out there was nothing to look through and see as that isn't how they do it, and their results are not something most of us understand.
They are not telescopes you can look through, their data is just that, data.
Apparently you need a masters degree in maths and astronomy to understand or make any sense of it.
Stephen Hawking has a telescope up there, to try and find out about black holes.
This is where it's important that the scientists use their imagination and emotion to explain it to the rest of us in terms we understand.
To share it, they need to make it something the rest of us understand. They do that by making visual representations and sharing their sense of awe.
Carl Sagan is one good example of someone who shared his awe, and his programmes were full of emotion.
Well in my opinion.
Without that, most of us wouldnt know anything at all.
Raw data is a bit dry, we need a bit of emotion with it.
