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They won’t ever take the place of the grand narratives created over centuries when religion and science were the same thing.

I think they are in a position to do that though, since now, science is culture. People don’t think about the history of oil and auto manufacturing, they just speed down the road in their magic machines.

about innocence lost, about survival against odds, about hope.

Which are all in the stories of discoveries and even can be used to anthropomorphize the formation of elements or the interaction of land and sea.

That job would be better suited to those who study literature and communications and marketing.

But people expect that they can access the scientist, the one with the information, who can answer any random question. The marketing person would have to say, “let me go back and ask the scientist that, then I’ll get back to you.” People don’t trust that.