There's no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space the more people you have the better.
Unfortunately Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically questionable at best.
First I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values we believed than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.
I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh science in many cases is yet to prove why.
Perhaps it would be better for science that all criticism should be avowed.
I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology so in that way fantasy is easier.
I was always very interested in science and I knew that for me science was a better long-term career than tennis.