I have a friend called beaudoin and
he is convinced that I am
crazy they think I’m crazy because
that I spend my days in a
laboratory to study genes
genetic beaudry not understand that
can spend his days studying
genes
if you go to the coffee shop that
you ask a little bit what the
people think of science and
scientists
what are you harvesting like picture ya
things that are found in the
sunflower comics in the
movies the doctor folamour
we are going to deal with crazy geniuses
incomprehensible people people a
bad design all that is not true
I am convinced that science and
scientists are mythified science
and mythified because she is
fundamentally unknown she is
misunderstood because in his language in
the concepts that she often uses
seems incomprehensible to us
in any case we have the impression that she
we miss what is a
ged
what is a bozon
what it is that these are the
interactions between particles and
this misunderstanding will result
then some suspicion because
we do not like things
escape we are wary this
mistrust will also be fueled
by technological developments
that science will bring and its
technological developments we know
never if they are good for us
humanity or if they serve some
private interests of large groups
financial
distrust also because sometimes
the impression that science does not fill
not his promises
but what promise does it promise on
science in a weird way to the
time we do not know science at the same time
time in the impression that she is
super powerful that we will heal all
diseases
that too is a misconception what
science that addresses the reality where
she the reality she was
immeasurable
the work of science is never
finished the scientific truth already
but ultimate
short today what I want to do
with you is to try to
demystify the science I will try
to break down some preconceived ideas you
show what a scientist is
what is the work of the scientist and
I would like to share with you the vision
that I have that science is a blessing
for Humanity
then the researcher is first of all a
discoverer
you all know this adage that
likes or dislikes according to which
researchers looking for one in
found researchers who find one
looking for that you may be amusing me
not so not so much because in
done and that I think that very often
they ignore all the researchers
discover of course not
things we will hear on TV
on the radio
too often a lot of little things and
I’ll take an example I read it
not so long ago so the gene
hawke’s bay a control the
differentiation and proliferation
cell at the level of the progenitors
of the second heart field within a
home last pharyngeal 1 and that this gene
is interacting with the auxerre gene
hu super there I exactly fall into the
through which I denounced what is
is that this story looks like
completely abstruse but it’s not
not at all these are small
discoveries of this kind there that
accumulate to each other that
we realize in all our laboratories
and which ultimately allow a
given moment to understand things
it’s doing this kind of research
that we understand how molecules
interact with each other how is this
that these molecules interact within
of cells how do these cells get
put together for during the
development of the embryo for example
train a heart a killer who walks
it also helps to understand how
sometimes it does not work how
cardiovascular diseases appear
and series etc
but each of these small discoveries
who looks who seem abstruse
each corresponds to a step towards the
world of the unknown
every day researchers
transgress border that separates the
world known to the world is unknown on
researcher who is in front of this
discovery is the first to put its
feet there he is the first to wear the
look at this thing the researchers from
my lab are daily
discoveries
he sees things that nobody had
seen before transgressing the borders of
the unknown
this is one of the first goals of the
science and if I take the accumulation
from these searches
well they will lead to revisiting the
world to redefine has represented
differently the world
science is above all a work of art
representation of the world and I’m going
take a second example borrowed
this time to cosmology
you certainly know the
einstein’s famous equations is
equals mc carey which implies does that
Explain rather than mass that of
energy
you may know too
the exchange equation in the tail I
I venture on an unknown land to
my part but who will testify to the fact
that mass distorts space time and
starting from his mathematics which
represents the world I can
represent for example things
virtually invisible like holes
black as a supermassive black hole at
within a galaxy I can also in
playing with this mathematical language
with this representation of the world
I can testify of how a
star interact and with a black hole
for example well that’s me it’s me
fascinates it’s absolutely remarkable to
imagine those stars that meeting
black holes absolutely remarkable
to understand how these genes
interact with each other to
put a heart in place the scientist
who works at the representation of the
world basically his action is
a creative action
because it takes imagination to
write his equations to write his
models that explains life or where
winter things this creativity
this creativity there the
scientist
sharing with the artist obviously the
science is not art science
aims to have a speech
objective the session is constrained by
constrained by logic science
she wants to be shared but
despite all the scientist is going to have this
balancing act between
imagination of fantasy and the
scientific rigor now from
to discover
why why the researchers leave
to discover because the
researchers never want to read
as acquired
a certainty the researcher delivers
always in question at the lab without
stop we doubt we say like but this
observation there does not stick with what
has been published
challenge
question to transgress this
boundary that separates the known world from the
unknown world and well it must be dared
it must be dared it is uncomfortable to
not sit on certainties
immutable and so the researcher is a
adventurer
science is a human adventure and
this human adventure is an adventure
collective
you know engine you know
darwin you know marie curie all
these great researchers who obviously
have contributed in a major way to
science would be nothing without a
community of scientists more or
less anonymous who did all these
small discoveries that bring them
great
science is a human adventure
collective is more than that science
must incarnate in society and
she is incarnate of society the
great discoveries
paradigm shifts are not
possible only if society within
which science is playing is ready
to this paradigm shift and in that
meaning science becomes an adventure of
civilization copernican revolution
galilated seven paradigm shifts
and could not find a place elsewhere than
in during the period of the
Renaissance
darwin the evolution of species
embody in a society in
evolution
the industrial revolution of
England of the nineteenth century
science is an adventure of
civilization the society in return is going
invest science is there the genius of
discoverer gives way to the genius of
the inventor the science and use the
knowledge are used to
generate inventions of inventions
why for the sake of man and the
well of nature my friend baudoin she
come back this is where baudoin means
he well of the nail goods of nature in
are we sure
the question is how is this
that the company invests in insurance and
to some extent the way
whose company invests the science
andy is obviously a lot more on
values of society that the
value of science here the center of
severity of society is no longer
the human being we can imagine that
the exploitation of science will only serve
no longer humanity these come
say that when we are wary of patience
friends of the coffee trade is my friend
beaudoin who is wary of science they
are not mistaken this is not science
which must worry but well the
company that invests so
let’s never forget this so science is
a discovery activity
science is a work of
representation of the world
science is a human adventure that
aims to generate the
knowledge and my creed frankly
is that knowledge is the
first heritage of humanity and
with this
Thank you
[Applause]
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