He was committed to science.
Whatever one may think of his brand of comedy, "Seth MacFarlane is deeply committed to science literacy in this country," Dr. Tyson said, and the two of them share a goal: reinforcing the idea that "science needs to be taken to people's hearts in a way that they become better citizens for it".
If the government were to cut science spending, "it would create a perception the UK is not committed to science" and make it hard for the country to attract the best scientists, he added, pointing to countries such as Singapore where calculated investment in science had brought returns in the quality of its research.
With the inauguration of an administration avowedly committed to Science as the grand elixir for the nation's economic, environmental and psycho-reputational woes, a number of scientists say that now is the time to tackle a chronic conundrum of their beloved enterprise: how to attract more women into the fold, and keep them once they are there.
"The dominant culture [believes that] these [applicants] are not committed to science," Ceci warns.
CAST Vice-President Cheng also advises students that first and foremost, they must be committed to science.
"I've worked on national agendas quite a lot, and this is an opportunity to work on those agendas at a pretty high level, and with a team of people who are deeply committed to science.
Because naturalists are typically committed to science as a central, if fallible, avenue of knowledge about the world (i.e. some variety of epistemic fundamentalism), naturalists will want to explain how this can be if, as social constructionists about scientific representations note, empirical observation is theory-laden and scientific theories are themselves subject to massive social influences.
He rages against superstitions and orthodoxies of every stripe, committed to science and his secular saint, Charles Darwin.
But believe me, I spent my whole life studying science and the philosophy of science, and our whole company is committed to science.
