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- The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.
- To ensure continuing prosperity in the global economy, nothing is more important than the development and application of knowledge and skills.
- In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to…
- The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.
- During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set…
- Perhaps future space probes will be plastered in commercial logos, just as Formula One cars are now. Perhaps Robot Wars in space will be a…
- Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the…
- The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.
- Space and time may have a structure as intricate as the fauna of a rich ecosystem, but on a scale far larger than the horizon…
- Indeed, our everyday world presents intellectual challenges just as daunting as those of the cosmos and the quantum, and that is where 99 per cent…
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