Radio Quote by Alok Sharma

I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is…

— Justus von Liebig

Britain could contribute huge value to the world by leveraging existing assets, including scientific talent and how the NHS is structured, to push the…

— Dominic Cummings

Since 1955, the U.K. has been part of an intelligence-sharing arrangement with the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Intelligence-sharing is, in itself, commonplace.

— Dominic Grieve

If you look at U.K. science, we collaborate with people across the whole world, and it's extremely important we continue to do so in…

— Mark Walport

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

— Alexander Fleming

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has…

— Charles Babbage

“At school you were taught about chemicals in test tubes, equations to describe motion, and maybe something on photosynthesis – about which more later…

— Ben Goldacre

We're trendsetters, first to welcome brilliant inventions into our lives, from the microwave meal to Instagram. Britain is a nation of Uber-riding, Deliveroo-eating, Airbnb-ing…

— Liz Truss

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

— Alexander Fleming

“Arguably the greatest technological triumph of the century has been the public-health system, which is sophisticated preventive and investigative medicine organized around mostly low-…

— Richard Rhodes

Britain punches way above its weight in science, and I think we need to continue to do that, and anything that makes it easier…

— John O'Keefe

“Science is an inherent contradiction — systematic wonder — applied to the natural world. In its mundane form, the methodical instinct prevails and the…

— Thomas Lewis Fari Amini and Richard Lannon