Ambassador Quote by Marcus du Sautoy

“I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.” quote by Marcus du Sautoy — Download Open image

“I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.”

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You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

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We need scientists and mathematicians explaining why they are excited about their subjects but also why they are important for solving social problems, informing…

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The wonderful thing about maths is it's a totally logical subject, and a pathway has been marked out. I think a lot of these…

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If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm always thinking…

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“For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to venture out into the wilds…

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The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel…

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“It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that throughout evolutionary history, the eye evolved independently fifty to a hundred times. This is strong evidence for the fact that the different rolls of the dice that have occurred across different species seem to have produced species with eyes regardless of what is going…

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Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when…

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When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal.

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If you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll…

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I think my primary audience is in some sense an adult audience, because I think that will then have a knock-on effect for children.

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It's my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical…

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