Apropos:
"In 1928 in Gottingen, while working with Born, he (Victor F. Weisskopf) expressed his fear that the life in science, as it seemed to him, would isolate him from the concerns of humanity. But Born calmed him down saying " Stay in physics. You will see how deeply the new physics is involved with human affairs."
From: Physics and Society -- Essays in Honor of Victor Frederick Weisskopf by the International Community of Physicists, edited by V. Stefan (AIP/Springer-Verlag, NY 1998 ) page 24.