Each generation benefits from the insights and discoveries of those who came before. “If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants,” wrote Isaac Newton. In a new annual series, World Science Festival audiences are invited to stand on the shoulders of modern-day giants. Physicist Steven Weinberg doesn’t think people who oppose scientific endeavors are necessarily anti-science; just confused about what science is. He relates this to the yearly troubles in his own state regarding teaching creationism and intelligent design alongside evolution in classrooms.
More from this series: On the Shoulders of Giants: Steven Weinberg

Recorded June 2011; Posted November 2011