Nature vs science French physics Nobel laureate Alain Aspect has denounced those who imply that “returning to the state of nature would be much better”
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Science versus nature. This “anti-scientific” greatly worries the Nobel Prize in Physics. On Wednesday, French physicist Alain Aspect, co-winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, blasted “some activist groups who […] seem to be misdirected by saying that it’s the fault of science if the planet is going badly.
“Science is not the enemy of the planet” of the temptations of the “return to; nature,” supports the academic. In an interview with; l’AFP ahead of the presentation of his Nobel Prize Saturday to; Stockholm, the specialist in quantum physics explained wanting to use their reward as a “megaphone” in “for science”.
“If you don’t understand the science, you can’t solve the problem”
“I try to use it in favor of science, for example to explain that science is not the enemy of the planet but on the contrary that the concern to save the planet is It’s by doing science and building on science that they’ll get there,” the 75-year-old teacher. “I think it’s fault what people do with science. Not science itself. If you don’t understand the science, you can’t solve the problem,” he continued.
A speech he says forgets “that’before progress of science, before the invention of antibiotics, machines to alleviate the pain of men, the situation of humanity; was much more miserable than today”.