Science popularization involves information about science explaining the things and their implications in detail, or any beliefs the reader might have and also tell them about the newer discoveries so as to enlarge the persons horizons.

Everything is an oversimplification. Reality is messy and complex.

The question is whether it is a useful simplification.

Know the limitations of an idea and you can apply it to great effect—despite the messiness of reality.

Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.

There is an established framework in which any scientist can prove another wrong and make sure everyone else knows about it.

Anybody can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Once you abandon strict adherence to what science tells us, once you start arranging the truth in a press conference, then anything is possible. In one context, maybe you will get some mobilization against nuclear war. But in another context, you get Lysenkoism. In another, you get Nazi euthanasia. The danger is always there, if you subvert science to political ends.

The historian always oversimplifies, and hastily selects a manageable minority of facts and faces out of a crowd of souls and events whose multitudinous complexity he can never quite embrace or comprehend.

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

I'm a great believer in popularising science, but I've noticed that it's not very effective [...]. We treat our knowledge a bit like beliefs, and that creates a lot of confusion.

Any scientist, myself or another, can become so enamoured of his brain child that he resents criticism.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.

Like most artists who have made an invention of some kind, he tends to overplay the significance of his own and goes on about it as though it were a Rosetta Stone, with whose help all representation can be rescued from one-eyed falsehood.