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12 transcript-backed records
01 / uncertainty
“You need to add up the bills and work out — I don’t know — how much 6 meters of cloth at $10 a meter is going to cost.”
02 / belief
“An enormous number of holes have been picked in Thomas Kuhn’s book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. I think Thomas Kuhn himself would agree with many of those.”
03 / belief
“I think that’s the sort of thing that George Eliot was talking about — that I had hope that I had a big influence on individual lives.”
04 / recommendation
“Well, if I’m going to extend Northern England to the south a bit, to the Midlands, I would say Lichfield because that’s where Erasmus Darwin lived, who was Charles Darwin’s grandfather.”
05 / prediction
“I think a lot of men in physics, unfortunately, are still unwilling to recruit or to promote female scientists.”
06 / evaluation
“If you think about that model of science, if you think of science as being continuous, not as a range of mountain peaks with individual geniuses standing on top of them, then women played a very, very important role because teaching, illustrating, drawing, editing, running museums, collecting different specimens — those are all absolutely crucial.”
07 / preference
“I already knew about them, but I had to translate them into very simple phrases, and each one had to be matched to an illustration. That’s probably why I have so many images in my book, because we were making — they don’t exist now, but they were called tape-slide programs, the 35-millimeter slides that were synchronized with a tape cassette.”
08 / evaluation
“We’ve got to get away from this idea that work is what really matters because it’s life that matters and how happy you are.”
09 / evaluation
“In theological terms, he was rather at odds with everybody else at Cambridge because he was a very, very devout believer in God, but he didn’t adhere to the traditional, to the orthodox Anglican theological belief in the Trinity, so that was difficult for him.”
10 / uncertainty
“There’s a lot of debate about whether it is the best and most useful classification system.”
11 / recommendation
“The other reason for why I think every science student should learn history of science is that the students I teach absolutely love it because they have an opportunity to argue and to express their own ideas and think for themselves.”
12 / evaluation
“He managed to produce a current of electricity, and he showed that it’s the same as the electricity that’s in our bodies. So I think Alessandro Volta is the most important person in the creation of current electricity as opposed to static electricity.”