We could use a mind like.................

...................Warren Weaver's right now:

       Because scientists are reasonably accurate, unselfish, and objective when they are in their laboratories, there is a danger that we forget that scientists are only men, subject to the same hopes and fears, the same aches and joys, as the rest of us, and that they are often especially illogical and unscientific when they get outside the field of their own technical competence.  And, accordingly, there is a real danger in the idea—which one actually hears defended—that almost any situation of social, economic, political, or national emergency would automatically be solved if "the scientists" were only put in charge.

      No, science is not gadgetry, not technology, not "development," not magic; it is not a universal intellectual snake oil which will cure all diseases; it is not the mysterious black box our of which man can get a gadget to meet every emergency of his life, every need of his soul.  What, then, is science?

      Science is the activity whereby man discovers the basic laws which govern the constitution and functioning of physical matter and of all living things.  It is a way of solving problems—not all problems, but, nevertheless, a large class of important and practical problems; namely, those in which the predominant factors are subject to the basic laws of logic and are usually quantitative in character.  Science is a way of organizing reproducible knowledge about such problems, of focusing and disciplining imagination, of weighing evidence, of deciding what is relevant and what is not, of impartially testing hypotheses, of ruthlessly discarding what proves to be inaccurate or inadequate, of facing facts, and of interpreting facts and of making the facts of nature the servants of man.

      This, it seems to me, is enough for science to be!  Such a science is not an arrogant dictator in the whole arena of life, but rather a democratic companion of philosophy, of art, or religion, and of other valid alternative approaches to reality.

-Warren Weaver,  Science and Imagination (1967)