Heh heh heh. Don't mind Brian Cox actually.
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Really like the guy he's likeable and clear in his presentation. For me he's the David Attenborough of the hard sciences.
What I like him best for though is how he was and what he said around the time of the higgs boson discovery. He was a guest on "Sunday politics" of all things right at the end of the programme. I felt for him he clearly was uncomfortable with the utterly base stupidity and condescending questions from the presenter about the commercial significance of the discovery. He answered politely but let them all with their smug smiles with the following parting shot:
It went something like this...
I know one thing...we as a population have spent more bailing out banks in one year than ALL the money spent on science and industry since the birth of Christ.
I thought it was a great thing to say and it needs saying to every politician, bureaucrat, and business leader over and over and over and over again until they realise that the best way to make this world better is by putting money in research and innovation. Not swinge-ing looking for margins on the same old money ad nauseum.
Sorry thought I'd put that out there.
