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Barbara Castle
(6 Oct 1910 - 3 May 2002)
English government official who was Minster of Transport 1965-68, and was active in the Labour party most of her life. In 1937, she was elected to St Pancras borough council. She was elected in 1945 as a member of Parliament, in the House of Commons until 1979, then spent ten years in the European Parliament. In 1990 she was created a life peer and joined the House of Lords.
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Science Quotes by Barbara Castle (1 quote)
[Large motorway flyovers] are the cathedrals of the modern world.
— Barbara Castle
Writing about the first four-level motorway interchange, which links the M4 and M5 at Almondsbury. Entry for 22 Jul 1966 in The Castle Diaries 1964-70 (1980), 152. Cited in Brian Howard Harrison, Seeking a role: the United Kingdom, 1951-1970 (2009), 139.
See also:
- Red Queen: The Authorised Biography of Barbara Castle, by Anne Perkins. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
