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Margaret Thatcher
(14 Oct 1925 - 8 Apr 2013)
English politician and chemist who studied at Oxford University (1943-47), where she was tutored by Dorothy Hodgkin. She soon turned to politics and eventual became Conservative Prime Minister (1979-90).
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Quotes by others about Margaret Thatcher (1)
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.
On Mrs Margaret H. Thatcher.
On Mrs Margaret H. Thatcher.
The Guardian, 15 Oct 1988.
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) -- 
