Home Mobile version About spiked What is spiked? Support spiked spiked shop Contact us Advertising Summer school Top issues Abortion Arab uprisings British politics Economy Environment For Europe, Against the EU Free speech Nudge Obesity Obituaries Occupy protests Parents and kids Population The Stephen Lawrence case USA View all issues...  Letters  Review of Books  Monthly archive selected authors Duleep Allirajah Daniel Ben-Ami Tim Black Jennie Bristow Sean Collins Dr Michael Fitzpatrick Frank Furedi Helene Guldberg Patrick Hayes Mick Hume Rob Lyons Brendan O’Neill Nathalie Rothschild James Woudhuysen more authors... RSS feed		survey abc | def | ghi | jkl | mno | pqrs | tuv | wxyz | index Survey home Introduction Survey responses RSS feed Anjana Ahuja Julian Baggini Philip Ball Marlene Oscar Berman Gustav VR Born K Eric Drexler Marcus Du Sautoy Edmond H Fischer John Hall Tim Hunt Wolfgang Ketterle Leon Lederman Matt Ridley Raymond Tallis Frank Wilczek Lewis Wolpert Patrick Walter senior lecturer at the Department of Adult Continuing Education, The University of Wales Swansea The discovery of quantum mechanics represents one of the most beguiling, strange, mysterious and yet useful discoveries ever made. Kevin Warwick professor of cybernetics, University of Reading It will be the first direct electronic communication between two human brains. Dr Julian Whitaker founder of the Whitaker Wellness Institute The discovery of the active molecules of life such as vitamins, minerals, essentials fatty acids, amino acids, and hormones Dr John Whitfield Science writer, author and blogger The greatest innovation in ecology is the concept of the niche, as developed by Evelyn Hutchinson in the late 1950’s Frank Wilczek professor of physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joint recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics The greatest innovation in physics, and I think in all of science, was the discovery that important behaviour of natural objects can be described with mathematical precision Austin Williams Director Future Cities Project It was when I first saw a primitive rapid prototyping device on BBC's Tomorrow's World in the early 80s, that I realised that this was the future Professor Lewis Wolpert emeritus professor of biology as applied to medicine, University College London The microscope was the greatest innovation for cell and developmental biology. Without it cells would not have been discovered James Woudhuysen professor of forecasting and innovation, De Montfort University. The greatest innovation in my field, forecasting and innovation, was probably made by Karl Marx: he knew that human agency was infinitely more powerful than fate. Dr Matt Young Senior lecturer in physics, Colorado School of Mines in Golden The lens is integral to the telescope, the microscope, the camera, and almost every optical instrument you can name. Anton Zeilinger Full professor of experimental physics, University of Vienna The invention of experiment. Robert Zimmerman science journalist, historian and author Space exploration has given the human race a steady, continuous look at the unknown.
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