"You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy,"

Isn't that a perversion of the meaning and purpose of science? It certainly displays ignorance of the term "conservation of energy" and its meaning with respect to biological death.

I want my physicist's studying and teaching physics. There are plenty of arts majors with just enough high school physics to bullshit about science and to spew gobbledygook at funerals.