It has been said that every great emerging scientific truth goes to three phases: First people say: "It can't be true". Second they say: "It conflict… - Neil deGrasse Tyson

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine.

If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

Gibbous Moon, on this eve, on this night
Crosses high in the sky, in full sight.

Behold, there’s a star off to its side.
Oops, that’s not a star that you just eyed

That’s Jupiter. So bold, and so true.
Wave hello! ‘Cause you’re in its sky too.

The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth — that we have culture.