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Simon Singh

(1964) Writer United Kingdom

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Simon Singh is a writer from the United Kingdom.

Quick Facts About Simon Singh

Born: September 19, 1964
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Fermat's Last Theorem: the story of a riddle that confounded the world's greatest minds for 358 years
Known for: The Code Book, Trick or Treatment, Fermat's Last Theorem, Big Bang, The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
Spouse: Anita Anand

About Simon Singh

Simon Lehna Singh, is a British popular science author and theoretical and particle physicist. His written works include Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book, Big Bang, Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial and The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets. In 2012 Singh founded the Good Thinking Society, through which he created the website "Parallel" to help students learn mathematics.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

IET Kelvin Lecture Christopher Zeeman Medal Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Kelvin Prize Science Writing Award Leelavati Award Member of the Order of the British Empire

Quotes by Simon Singh

All I am saying is that if you want to answer a question, then we need to examine and weigh up the…

Answer

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One of the common responses to criticism of psychics is to suggest that even if their powers are illusory, there is no…

Audience

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Scientists aren't necessarily good communicators, because they aren't trained to be good communicators.

Because

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Many of the worst cases that triggered the campaign for libel reform involved corporations suing critics, so these particular sections of the…

Corporations

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The only consolation is that homeopathy can only be practised on animals by a fully trained vet or under the supervision of…

Animals

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“Pascal was even convinced that he could use his theories to justify a belief in God. He stated that ‘the excitement that…

Belief in god

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When I attended a forum on libel reform at the British Academy in 2011, 20 figures ranging from law professors to leading…

British

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People back down because the libel system is so utterly hostile to journalists, bloggers, scientists. The smart thing is not to fight.

Back

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When I was finishing my PhD, I could just see people who were a bit quicker and brighter and smarter than me…

Finishing

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In my case, I estimate that the members of the British Chiropractic Association have an annual turnover of £100m, and the BCA…

Article

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Part of the problem is that if anybody has a gut reaction about an issue, they can go online and have it…

Find

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Sunspots are hubs of intense magnetic activity and they trigger solar flares that launch charged particles, X-rays, ultraviolet radiation and radio waves…

Earth

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“In April 1977, Rivest, Shamir and Adleman spent Passover at the house of a student, and had consumed significant amounts of Manischewitz…

Next day

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The worlds of maths and science have a long history of naming important objects after people.

History

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What shocks me is people who have no expertise championing a view that runs counter to the mainstream scientific consensus.

Consensus

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Indeed, it is a proven mathematical theorem that a doughnut is topologically distinct from a sphere.

Doughnut

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Without doubt, the most mathematically sophisticated television show in the history of primetime broadcasting is 'The Simpsons'.

Doubt

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There is clearly something right about 7, because other numbers fail to resonate with us in quite the same way.

Numbers

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“Codebreakers are linguistic alchemists, a mystical tribe attempting to conjure sensible words out of meaningless symbols.”

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Nobody wants to get rid of the libel laws, but we want them to be fairer. If we drove down the costs…

Corporations

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The truth is that many of the writers of 'The Simpsons' are deeply in love with numbers, and their ultimate desire is…

Conscious mind

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In 2001, a systematic review of five studies revealed that roughly half of all chiropractic patients experience temporary adverse effects, such as…

Experience

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If you've written something that you believe is true, and if you can afford to defend it, then you've got to defend…

Afford

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I'm fairly unemotional and tend not to get too excited when things go well and I tend not to get too depressed…

Excited

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Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.

Always

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