Thus the title of an article in The Guardian a few weeks ago. The quote came from Professor Katalin Karikó, who was involved in pioneering research leading to the coronavirus vaccines that turned out to be the most successful. As she reported, she endured decades of skepticism, demotion, and ultimately kicking out of her laboratory while developing the technology that made Pfizer and Moderna vaccines possible. Attracted by the story at once, I relished the first sentence of the article itself: “Scientists would make swifter progress in solving the world’s problems if they learned to put their egos aside and collaborate better.” Exactly! I trusted science in my youth, and with conviction bordering on faith, but I gradually learned that scientists’ egos were an enormous impediment to development of all sciences. In my own experience, they behaved the same way as those of any other occupation, including sports and arts. Whence my initial enthusiasm about the article in question, but it took me a while to pin it down to my satisfaction. To wit, the only problem with the wisdom of Professor Karikó is that scientists cannot but behave in the way she describes. There is no way for humans to put their egos aside, that is. That amounts to science fiction at best. Alas, scientists are only human!