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The Times
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English newspaper.
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Science Quotes by The Times (3 quotes)
[Godfrey H. Hardy] personified the popular idea of the absent-minded professor. But those who formed the idea that he was merely an absent-minded professor would receive a shock in conversation, where he displayed amazing vitality on every subject under the sun. ... He was interested in the game of chess, but was frankly puzzled by something in its nature which seemed to come into conflict with his mathematical principles.
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In 'Prof. G. H. Hardy: A Mathematician of Genius,' Obituary The Times.
I am ashamed to say that C. P. Snow's “two cultures” debate smoulders away. It is an embarrassing and sterile debate, but at least it introduced us to Medawar's essays. Afterwards, not even the most bigoted aesthete doubted that a scientist could be every inch as cultivated and intellectually endowed as a student of the humanities.
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From 'Words of Hope', The Times (17 May 1988). Quoted in Neil Calver, 'Sir Peter Medawar: Science, Creativity and the Popularization of Karl Popper', Notes and Records of the Royal Society (May 2013), 67, 303.
This morning’s messages announce the death oF Thomas Alva Edison, the great American inventor who for two generations has been an almost legendary figure. … He seemed to belong to a past which was already becoming remote, a past, without the incandescent electric light, and without the phonograph, and without other gifts with which his ingenuity and persistence endowed the world. … In the philosophical, theoretical sense he [Thomas Edison] was not a scientific man. To the understanding of electricity, with the use of which most of his inventions are concerned, he contributed little or nothing. Yet no man discovered more, or more ingenious, ways of using electricity for practical purposes.
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In 'Thomas Edison', The Times (19 Oct 1931), 13.
Quotes by others about The Times (1)
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
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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.
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