ABSTRACT
The responsibility of science and scientists to society and to future generations is indisputable. Atomic bombs, intercontinental travel, miracle drugs, and instant communication are not the only kind of consequences entailed by science for society. The technological aspects of sciences impact are widely recognized, but there are also neglected, yet not negligible, aspects. For society at large, science conveys a dehumanized picture of the world, dry and abstract, reduced to numbers and formulas without feeling and value, heart or soul. Even in the mind of the more science-minded segment of the population, the scientific vision is incomplete and in some respects inhuman. Catching up with the lag between the world picture implied by leading edge discoveries in science, and that which dominates the mind of the public at large, is not a superficial matter readily resolved by measures.
