David Willetts famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets.
-- David Willetts

#Inquiry #Telescopes #Next
My challenge as university minister is about getting right balance of teaching and research.
-- David Willetts

#Teaching #Challenges #Balance
The DSA scheme has not been reviewed for 25 years
-- David Willetts

#Years #Schemes
Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation
-- David Willetts

#Men #Roger #Great Men
We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements.
-- David Willetts

#Running #Believe #Would Be

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.
If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope
My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?
Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.
Life is more important than 'what film I do next.
My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.
We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

David Willetts famous quotes

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