“I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel, and at once saddened and ashamed that I cannot accept it. All my life I have dealt with objective matters, hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official functions. So wrote Albert […]
Every morning Caroline Davidson goes into her office in west London and rifles through her “slush pile”. Like all literary agents, she hopes that buried deep within the daily deluge of book proposals and manuscripts will be something so fantastic that no potential publisher would dare turn it down. “My dream is to open a […]
Genevieve Haddad is typical of many scientists. She did a degree, a PhD and a post-doc, but then realized she did not want to spend the next few years of her life “getting to know more and more about less and less”. She liked the intellectual thrill of research, but hated doing experiments, which she […]
“Physicists are doing very, very well, ” says Richard Brook, sitting in the chief executive’s office at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. “We put more of our finance into physics departments than into any other. That’s an indication of the priority that we give to the subject.” His statements will come as a […]
Furious clashes on the nature of science have taken place recently between sociologists and scientists. Matin Durrani reports from the two sides' peace talks
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