Quotations archive
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Ashley Yeager on trustworthiness of scientists
8 August 2019 -
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Paul McEuan on the point of writing
11 June 2019 -
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Barbara Kingsolver on Richard Powers
5 April 2019 -
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Natalie Kofler on gene-edited babies
26 February 2019 -
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David Ludwig on the Diet Wars
15 November 2018 -
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Amanda Niehaus on the intersection of fact with fiction
18 May 2018 -
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Piers Bizony on the prophetic nature of 2001
30 March 2018 -
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John Bohannon on unusual public science engagement methods
1 November 2017 -
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Oliver Moody on getting what you pay for
18 July 2017 -
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Philip Pullman on the power of the author
13 July 2017 -
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Peter Higgs on the price of fame
5 April 2017 -
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Nature on Trump and ideology
4 February 2017 -
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Ian Sample on New Year's optimism
27 December 2016 -
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The Guardian on the 'Two Cultures'
22 November 2016 -
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Tom Whipple on the caffeine fix
15 August 2016 - Quotation 20 June 2016
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Andrew Dai on machine learning
8 May 2016 -
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Tricia Serio on subtle sexism in science
28 April 2016 -
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Philip Ball on the new elements
17 January 2016 -
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Oliver Geden on the integrity of climate scientists
30 November 2015 -
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Guy Poppy on scientific impact
30 September 2015 -
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Crispin Halsall on big distractions
8 September 2015 -
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Peter Medawar on lab lovers
23 July 2015 -
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Alan Stern on the New Horizons flyby of Pluto
12 July 2015 -
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Stephen Hawking on austerity cuts
31 May 2015 -
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Mark Zuckerberg on virtual reality
22 April 2015 -
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Doug Turnbull on the fruits of his labor
8 February 2015 -
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Jim McGovern on Republican science-bashing
24 November 2014 -
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Matt Taylor on the Rosetta mission
16 November 2014 -
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David Harding on the queen of the sciences
11 September 2014 -
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Adam van Arsdale on the Hobbit
25 August 2014 -
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Stephanie Kwolek on breakthroughs
29 June 2014 -
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Yorick Wilks on inflated artificial intelligence claims
11 June 2014 -
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Chris Lintott on the discovery of primordial gravitational waves
22 March 2014 -
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Kevin Spacey on scientists as celebrities
15 December 2013 -
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Mark Lorch on chemophobia
28 November 2013 -
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Meg Urry on the neutering of female scientists
4 October 2013 -
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Alex Day on stereotypes
5 August 2013 -
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Nikki Baughan on female role models in the cinema
22 July 2013 -
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Georgina Rippon on feminism
10 July 2013 -
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Alice Roberts on geeks
21 May 2013 -
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Denis R. Alexander on a strange race
23 February 2013 -
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Nature magazine on Italian research
4 November 2012 -
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Science on women in research careers
14 October 2012 -
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Adam Ruben on scientists
9 May 2012 -
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Nature magazine on dangerous research
2 May 2012 -
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Nature magazine on Britain's neglect of Alan Turing
22 February 2012 -
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Mike Gazzaniga on the scientific process
22 November 2011 -
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Ben Gilliland on the LHC's legacy
24 October 2011 -
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Nature magazine on the lab work ethic
4 September 2011 -
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Ben Goldacre on big science studies
12 June 2011 -
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Steve Silberman on US Republicans
30 May 2011 -
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Stuart Jeffries on Brian Cox
27 March 2011 -
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Nature on the joys of negative data
7 March 2011 -
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Philip Ball on explaining science
27 February 2011 -
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Marc Kirschner on engineers
13 December 2010 -
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Elizabeth Kolbert on US Republicans and climate change
25 November 2010 -
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Ben Goldacre on the Daily Mail
27 October 2010 -
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Richard Ransohoff on scientist/media relations
6 September 2010 -
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James Kakalios on curiosity
22 July 2010 -
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Daniel Sarewitz on modern scientists
1 July 2010 -
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Marc Lipsitch on swine flu precautions
13 June 2010 -
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Martin Rivers on who you should trust
22 April 2010 -
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Ben Goldacre on scientific criticism
20 April 2010 -
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Adam Afriye on the scientific profession
3 March 2010 -
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Stephen Curry and Bill Hanage on how science really works
13 February 2010 -
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Simon Jenkins on scientists
8 February 2010 -
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Steven Chu on scientist work ethics
30 December 2009 -
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Ben Goldacre on climate change denialists
12 December 2009 -
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Gordon Brown on taking scientific advice
3 November 2009 -
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Peter Lawrence on the research funding system
19 September 2009 -
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Diggitt McLaughlin on dying biological arts
20 August 2009 -
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Stephen Wiley on young scientists
26 July 2009 -
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Toby Murcott on scientific narrative
28 June 2009 -
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Stephen Wiley on rogue scientists
24 May 2009 -
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Rufus Wainright on scientists
19 April 2009 -
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Christopher Reddy on science-speak
22 March 2009 -
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Jeffrey Nachmanoff on scientific plots
1 March 2009 -
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Nature on Obama
1 February 2009 -
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Michael Brooks on omniscient scientists
25 January 2009 -
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Ben Goldacre on science in the media
28 December 2008 -
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Jerry Zucker on scientists
7 December 2008 -
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Nature editorial staff on uncommon descent
Richard P. Grant 23 November 2008 -
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Nature editorial staff on financial meltdown
16 November 2008 -
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Richard Gallagher on drone factories
19 October 2008 -
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Denis R. Alexander on Darwin
5 October 2008 -
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Richard Holmes on communication
28 September 2008 -
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Deborah C. Runkle on how animal research ignorance is bliss
21 September 2008 -
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Steven Wiley on Big Biology
24 August 2008 -
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W. Tad Pfeffer on the dangers of dissent
3 August 2008 -
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Steven Wiley on the reductionism of biologists
13 July 2008 -
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Ken Caldeira on scientists in the policy arena
6 July 2008 -
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Nature editorial staff on stigmatizing scientific fraudsters
22 June 2008 -
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Peter A. Lawrence on why older scientists shouldn't be turfed out
1 June 2008 -
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Ben Goldacre on science bloggers vs. science journalists
26 May 2008 -
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Richard Gallagher on Plan B for scientists
11 May 2008 -
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Freya Blekman on informal gender-bias in physics
27 April 2008 -
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Nature editorial on hyped-up science
6 April 2008 -
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Steven Wiley on scientific innovation
9 March 2008 -
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David Goldston on debating science
10 February 2008 -
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Penelope Duerksen-Hughes on women in science
20 January 2008 -
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Elisabeth Pain on lab fraud
6 January 2008 -
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Paul Trotman on science spin
23 December 2007 -
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Felix E. Schweizer on scientific theories
2 December 2007 -
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Ben Goldacre on MRI for market research
18 November 2007 -
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Ruthmarie Hicks on starving scientists
11 November 2007 -
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David Cronenberg on literary freedom
28 October 2007 -
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Pamela Silver on academic biologists
14 October 2007 -
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Ben Goldacre on bogus fish oil trials
23 September 2007 -
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Paul Browne on scientists debating online
2 September 2007 -
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Andrew Rosenberg on scientists as policy facilitators
26 August 2007 -
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Marina Hyde on Stephen Hawking
11 August 2007 -
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Ursula K. Le Guin on genre
29 July 2007 -
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Philip Ball on Hollywood science
15 July 2007 -
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Gaia Vince on science pop songs
1 July 2007 -
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Nature on poor peer-reviewing skills
17 June 2007 -
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Chris Mooney on scientific scepticism
3 June 2007 -
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Michael Davidson on knowing how things work
13 May 2007 -
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Adam Ferguson on PhDs in the real world
29 April 2007 -
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Fabian Asker on literary deconstruction
15 April 2007 -
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Sean Morrison on science publication
1 April 2007 -
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Hugh Cormican on physicists
11 March 2007 -
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Mike Hulme on UK press scaremongering
25 February 2007 -
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Ben Goldacre on science journalists
11 February 2007 -
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Ari Handel on leaving science
28 January 2007 -
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Nate Lo on the art of naming a new bacterium
7 January 2007 -
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An anonymous researcher on animal experimentation
17 December 2006 -
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Ben Goldacre on the Daily Mail
3 December 2006 -
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Patrick Marsh on the origins of life
19 November 2006 -
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Simon Jenkins on Britain's science curriculum
29 October 2006 -
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Richard Gallagher on George Bush
14 October 2006 -
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Harry Kroto on chemistry education
7 October 2006 -
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George Monbiot on climate-change denial
24 September 2006 -
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Elizabeth Spelke on gender differences in science aptitude
10 September 2006 -
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Ben Goldacre on clinical trials
13 August 2006 -
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Jeanette Winterson on Stephen Hawking
5 August 2006 -
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Tom Pringle on faked Brainiac science
15 July 2006 -
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Benjamin Heisenberg on the Zeitgeist
28 June 2006 -
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Faith Wilding on kids in labs
24 June 2006 -
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James Lovelock on nuclear waste
11 June 2006 -
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Ben Goldacre on the placebo effect
28 May 2006 -
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Nick Ross on inspiring science writing
21 May 2006 -
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Tshaka Cunningham on postdoctoral salaries
8 May 2006 -
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Karla Neugebauer on women in science
1 May 2006 -
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The Rev. George V. Coyne on the Universe
18 April 2006 -
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Ian McEwan on science writers
2 April 2006 -
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George Lewith on the BBC's documentary Alternative Medicine
26 March 2006 -
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David Magnus on when human life begins
19 March 2006 -
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Iain Simpson on scientists vs. anti-vivisectionists
3 March 2006 -
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Rush Holt on non-scientists
18 February 2006 -
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Peter Bradshaw on Proof
13 February 2006 -
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The Independent on the death of a planetarium
5 February 2006 -
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Lord Martin Rees on evolution
30 January 2006 -
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Mark MacDiarmid on negative results
18 January 2006 -
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Madeleine Bunting on Richard Dawkins's viewpoint
10 January 2006 -
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Cho Jae-hyon on South Korea's stem cell scandal
21 December 2005 -
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Simon Singh on physicists
2 December 2005 -
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Jim Watson on women scientists
8 November 2005 -
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The FT Magazine on scientists in film
22 October 2005 -
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Alan Sugar on scientists
25 September 2005 -
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Dr. Henry Gee on fantasy and science
4 September 2005 -
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Richard Gallagher on the poor image of scientists
21 July 2005 -
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Professor Sir Antony R. Hoare on selfless scientific strategies
Jennifer Rohn 5 June 2005 -
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Tim Lott on science novelists
24 April 2005 -
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Zlatko Tesanovic on string theory
31 March 2005 -
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Lord May on science TV dramas
7 March 2005