Posted by Thomas Butts, on 24 June 2014
‘Increasing knowledge leads to triumphant loss of clarity’ ‘The study of segmentation: that way leads only to madness’ Alfred Romer (1894 – 1973), Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology ...Posted by Thomas Butts, on 28 October 2013
‘‘None of the scientists would comment on the record, for fear that it would affect their funding or that of their postdocs and graduate students’’ Nature, September 2012 ‘Is science ...Posted by Thomas Butts, on 15 October 2013
‘‘Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.’’ Benjamin Franklin. I am in Paris. I love Paris. It reeks of the arrogance and certainty still of the ...Posted by Thomas Butts, on 9 July 2013
‘England is the only nation on earth that has managed to limit the power of kings by resisting them, and has finally established a wise system of government in ...Posted by Thomas Butts, on 23 April 2012
Two weeks ago the Guardian newspaper, the safe port of call for most left-leaning liberal academics in the UK, devoted its entire front page to the rise of open access ...