Dr. Sergiu Pașcă

And yet we all got together, you know, 25 or so labs, discuss some of these issues, reach some consensus, you know, and I think that moves the field forward.

And I think in general in science, we will need more and more of this collaborative effort because the science is getting more complex.

Biology is getting really, really complex.

And there's no one single lab that can solve all of that.

And these terms change with time.

I think it's also important to mention that our understanding evolves.

Science progresses, and sometimes there are things that we thought we understood, and then new techniques come and change that.

I think it was Sidney Brenner who said that progress in science...

usually comes from a new technique that will yield new discoveries and that will create new ideas.

So, you know, you think you understand something and suddenly you have a new machine that can measure it much better with more precision.

Or let's say you have this technology when you can now recreate some of the circuits and suddenly new ideas come out of it, new discoveries.

And then we rethink and we adjust.

And I think that's the beauty of science, that in a way it's self-correcting as we get a better and better understanding of the world around us.

That's why it's so important that both when we communicate as scientists to the public, we use terms that are not trivializing.

I think very often we're told, like, you know, try to simplify so that the public understand.

The public understands much more than we think.

Mm-hmm.

There are always ways in which you can explain something without trivializing it, without using a new term or some comparison so that they understand that.

Because very often analogies can also be dangerous, right?

But I think – I always sort of like assume and that is sort of like being my –