Science Museum Quotes (2 quotes)
Besides science museums, which hold stocks of artifacts, there are science centres which show
manufactured models. Everyone knows that the best way to teach science is by doing experiments.
Science centres are in effect public science laboratories … that enable the public to try scientific experiments with their own hands.
In 'Early Days in University Geophysics', Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences (1982), 10, 13.
For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours, thinking how wonderful it was that each of those metal foils and jars of gas had its own distinct personality.
[Referring to the periodic table display in the Science Museum, London, with element samples in bottles]
[Referring to the periodic table display in the Science Museum, London, with element samples in bottles]
Letter to Oliver Sacks. Quoted in Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (2001), footnote, 203.