Science and falling in love with the world

The following quote is by Russell (2014:11) and is on the significance of citizen science

This is renaissance, your dentist now an authority on butterflies. 
Pygmy hunters and gatherers use smartphones to document deforestation in the Congo Basin. High school students identify fossils in soils from ancient seas. Do-it-yourself biologists make centrifuges at home. This is falling in love with the world, and this is science, and at the risk of sounding too much an idealist, I have come to believe they are the same thing.