Yale University
In 1951, the author and biologist Rachel Carson received the National Book Award for "The Sea Around Us," in which she combined rigorous science and elegant prose to explore the history, importance, and wonders of the world's oceans.
In her acceptance speech, Carson expounded on the vital importance of sharing science with the public.
"We live in a scientific age; yet by a strange paradox we behave as though knowledge of science is the prerogative of a small number of men, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories," she said. "This is not true. It cannot be true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself."
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