I’m rediscovering the lecture. Having sat through them with more regularity but less interest during the mid 90s in tertiary education it’s now an experience I crave more of. The renewed enthusiasm was sparked in part by seeing author Richard Holmes speak this time last year at the Royal Society. I wonder in an age [...]
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Some quotes
Un-related sentences that have grabbed me:
How different this country is compared to 1946, when I first arrived here.. Politics mattered, the welfare state was invented.. the church was still strong. We were a very deferential society. There hierarchy and values and obedience. All that’s gone.. Politics is a public utility and a bit of a [...]
What the history of science can teach us about climate change
I had a very enlightening evening last week at the Royal Institution where author Richard Homes – who has written brilliant biographies of Shelley and Colderidge – gave a lecture. It was quite a magical occasion as the biographer offered an insight into his new book, The Age of Wonder. As he pointed out he [...]
Art and science
Just caught a great Guardian podcast with on of Britain’s foremost literary biographers, Richard Holmes. He wrote landmark biographies of Romantic poets Coleridge and Shelley and in his new book, The Age of Wonder, he turns his attention to less well-known figures of the age, emerging scientists such as Humphry Davey and Herschel who enjoyed [...]
