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Article: A land unfit for genius

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October 16, 1994
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AT THE height of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, Antoine Lavoisier's friends tried to save him from the guillotine on the grounds that the discoverer of oxygen was probably the world's greatest living scientist. They were cut short, and Lavoisier's head cut off, with the remark: "La Republique n'a pas besoin de savants" - the state has no need of scientists.

In Britain today, 15 years on from Margaret Thatcher's first election victory, there is no place for scientists in the new-right revolution she began. Last week's announcement of the 1994 Nobel prizes revealed that North Americans have scooped all the science awards yet again. Britain is no longer a serious scientific nation.

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