There's something really beautiful about science, that human beings can ask these questions and can answer them. You can make models of nature and understand how it works.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the beauty of science as a tool for understanding the natural world through inquiry.
Margaret Geller emphasizes the inherent beauty in science, illustrating how humans possess the unique ability to ask profound questions about the universe and find answers through inquiry and exploration. By creating models of nature, we can deepen our understanding of its workings, showcasing the power of scientific investigation and the human capacity for curiosity and comprehension.
In practice
During a science presentation, I quoted Margaret Geller to inspire students about the importance of asking questions.
Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss.
I feel like every time a door is opened by science, suddenly there are a hundred doors that need to get opened. That's what makes it an everlasting, interesting experience to go through.
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.
Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.
It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that).
Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion.
Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially in the presence of life itself. Among the biomarkers in Earth's atmosphere are ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol sprays, vapor from mineral solvents, escaped coolants from refrigerators and air conditioners, and smog from the burning of fossil fuels. No other way to read that list: sure signs of the absence of intelligence.
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