A Giving Pledge of sharing discovery

The Giving Pledge is a moral commitment by some of the world's wealthiest individuals and families to contribute a majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes. It is a noble cause directed toward addressing society's most pressing problems. The pledge, and the people who have committed to the pledge, are to be admired for their generosity and vision. As scientists we typically do not accrue vast wealth in our lifetimes.but if we did, it is safe to say that the majority of scientists that I know would make The Giving Pledge. Notwithstanding, in the absence of nancial fortune, scientists still hold a special type of wealth, their discovery. We oen are quick to realize the impact of our discovery on a specic subject area of our scientic devotion and passion. Yet our discovery reaches beyond that immediacy. We are delighted to learn that our discovery “here” helped and contributed in a scientic discipline “over there”. Still deeper, have you ever thought about how your discovery may affect the young student that you never met? With the hesitation of dating myself, my enthusiasm for science was spurred by reading Encyclopedia Britannica. One could peruse, usually a page and never more than two, the “Wikipedia” of the day and learn about an obscure creature of organismic biology and then turn the page and be introduced to the cosmology of black holes. As a child, the wonders of science fell off