Title: Why is science so important to our society? Why do animals, plants and humans alike revolve around science? – Boron Zone
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Why is science so important to our society? Why do animals, plants and humans alike revolve around science?

Question: Why is science so important to our society? Why do animals, plants and humans alike revolve around science?
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Content: Science can play, and has to play, a main role in developing solutions and scientists need to play a bigger role in encouraging society, including the kids, in the key debates. Clearly there is a future role for potential scientists to become engaged
It is my feeling that we [scientists] need to break down some of the barriers that prevent scientists from different disciplines working together because solutions to complex environmental problems will come from collective thinking. Believe it or not scientists from different disciplines (physics, chemistry, economics, psychology, biology etc) don’t often get the opportunity to mingle and chat and put their combined wisdom together. imascientist has been great at this
Thanks sauble1000
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Simon O'Toole
answered on 5 Sep 2012: What a great question! Science is the way that we understand (and manipulate) the world and universe around us. But more than that, science is how we can satisfy our curiosity. All of the information we have about the Earth and the Universe – plants, animals, rocks, minerals, oceans, stars, galaxies, everything – came through scientific study, which was driven by our curiosity to know why things are the way they are. Science has given us so many benefits. It allows us to protect ourselves from the environment, and it allows us to the protect the environment from ourselves.