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Thora Hird
(28 May 1911 - 15 Mar 2003)
English actress and comedian whose career spanned eight decades, as one of Britain’s finest character actresses. She performed in theater, movies and TV.
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Science Quotes by Thora Hird (1 quote)
[My brother] Neville always got things to add to his Meccano set for Christmas. Nowadays there are such wonderful things for kids, but in those days Meccano was a real novelty, because you could make something that really worked. There were little screws with square bits that went on the end, and tiny screwdrivers. They were beautiful things. Every lad had Meccano in those days. Your father bought you the number one, number two, number three—whichever you hadn’t got. One year Neville got one that made a steam engine, so that when the wheel went round it moved along. And my father would help him to build it—never mind breakfast, they just wanted to get down to building the Meccano.
— Thora Hird
In Thora Hird’s Book of Bygones (1998), 35-36.
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) -- 
