[via Chris]Spiked have just done a science survey to celebrate Einstein Year, asking a range of renowned scientists what one thing above all they would teach the world about science. There were two gems.

From Frances M Ashcroft:

Science is the art of doubt, not of certainty

Amphiphiles are molecules that have an affinity for both aqueous and non-aqueous media

I should teach the world about amphiphiles. Amphiphiles are, as the Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology puts it, 'molecules that have an affinity for both aqueous and non-aqeous media'.

Toilet soap is one of the most common and ubiquitous examples.