Knowing how things work is important, but I think that's an incomplete view of what science literacy is or, at least, should be. Science literacy is an outlook. It's more of a lens through which you observe what goes on around you.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson, Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger (2009)
From a May 21, 2009 item under the heading 'Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger'.