Dr. Brian Keating

And because of that, it's like if somebody pays you to be an ice cream taster or to play professional baseball or whatever, right, you have an obligation to give back to the people that pay your salary out.

fans, the organization, or in my case, the taxpayer.

So for me, I see the obligation to my boss.

Imagine you worked at Dairy Queen, right, Ryan?

And working at Dairy Queen and your boss comes in and says, well, what are you up to, Ryan?

And you're like, well, you can't understand what I'm doing here, you know, boss.

I'm so advanced.

I'm so erudite.

I'm so just like, just such a genius.

And that's the attitude of most scientists, right?

And I understand it because we want to work on stuff that's incredibly cutting edge rather than – if you're an English professor, you don't want to teach the alphabet, right?

You want to teach like great literature.

And so too with science.

Like I don't want to teach like one plus one equals two or one times one equals two.

as Terrence Howard and I have been beefing about.

Dynamite.

So I'd rather do cutting edge physics like I'm doing.

But we do have an obligation to explain what we do in the simplest possible terms, but no simpler.

We shouldn't dumb it down.

I hate that term when people say, oh, you're great at dumbing it down.