Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.
In plain words
Science explains the what, how, and why behind everyday life.
Where these words come from
- 60% sureLots of sources credit Rachel Carson with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- 1952 National Book Award acceptance speech (for The Sea Around Us), reprinted in Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1999). Quoted verbatim by a literary essay citing the speech directly; not independently confirmed on Wikiquote, so held at likely.
- National Book Award acceptance speech
- 1952 · New York City · National Book Award for Nonfiction acceptance speech, for The Sea Around Us
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