Why bother?

Don't just take our word for it that sharing research with wider audiences is worthwhile.  Here's what a few other people have to say about it:


"Science, I maintain, is an absolutely essential tool for any society with a hope of surviving well into the next century with its fundamental values intact – not just science as engaged in by its practitioners, but science understood and embraced by the entire human community. And if the scientists will not bring this about, who will?"

Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World, 1997


"We have not known a single great scientist who could not discourse freely and interestingly with a child. Can it be that the haters of clarity have nothing to say, have observed nothing, have no clear picture of even their own fields?"

John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez, 1941


"The value of science... [is] the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens."

Thomas Jefferson, Memorial on the Book Duty, 1821