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Commander Mark Lister and the Company's Honorary Solicitor, Roger Seaton  

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Automated Britain

Liveryman Graeme Philp has invited all LIverymen to attend Automated Britain at the Gambica members rate  

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Celebration of Stephen Hawkings

I was very honoured to be invited by the Chairman of the trustees of the Science Museum to a reception to celebrate the 70th birthday of Professor Stephen Hawkin. Held in the Space Exploration gallery of the museum this was a very special event. The Museum has created a new exhibit area to celebrate the Professors achievement and I do recommend a visit if you are in the area. The Director, Ian Batchford, welcomed the guests and gave a short speech about Hawkins. Unfortunately the Professor has been ill for a couple of weeks and was unable to attend. However one of his daughters, Lucy, was present and she unveiled a gift from the Science Museum. The gift is a table lamp made of narrow gauge fluorescent light tubing made into the shape of a Hawkins radiation black hole. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr Douglas Gurr then proposed the birthday toast. It was a delight to be there and to be able to view the exhibits in the area without many tourists!!    

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FEATURED SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT

  • " If anybody says he can think about quantum problems without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. "
    Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962) Danish physicist.
  • " A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. "
    Edward Teller
  • " I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe. "
    Ken Jenkins
  • " If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate "
    Henry J. Tillman
  • " Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. "
    Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972
  • " The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." "
    Isaac Asimov
  • " Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. "
    Wernher Von Braun
  • " Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. "
    Jean Rostand
  • " Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. "
    Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis, 1905
  • " The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions. "
    Claude Lévi-Strauss, Le Cru et le cuit, 1964
  • " Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. "
    Martin H. Fischer
  • " Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. "
    Bertrand Russell
  • " DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine. "
    Kenneth Boulding
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