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 A lot of times people need to be pushed out of their comfort zone and learn about other fields.  Everything is connected in one way or another and if people are stuck in one discipline,  communication is less robust and rich and relationships tend to be shallow. Science prides itself on  explaining the world based on evidence but if people do not understand it,  they will not be able to incorporate it into their everyday living to the benefit of themselves and anyone else. There could be detrimental effects.

            The “building blocks” of science are open to much interpretation and that there does not seem to be one set way in initially learning the structure of science or maybe even a way at all! The idea that familiarization with vocabulary was the answer to the building blocks appealed at first. It makes sense that they make a marginal contribution to an individual having a general sense of science. Like languages, without the vocabulary, you cannot communicate or form sentences. With some vocabulary you can at least build on context and have a general idea as to what a scientist may be talking about.  Language is symbolic—it stands for something. It’s not just a pure construct like numbers might be. When you pick up the vocabulary you pick up a concept.