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AMIT MAJMUDAR | The Gita is so infinite because it's one of the few—or only, to my knowledge—religious texts that takes as a given the idea that human beings all have different temperaments and that different things are true to different people, and it builds from there several different pathways to the divine.

SIR PAUL NURSE | Life is something that is able to self-assemble into a whole, behaving object. And that's what a cell is, too...

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | Nobody disagreed on the data. But everybody disagreed on how to interpret the data. . .

ERIKA LORRAINE MILAM | There is a long tradition, of course, of writing for lay audiences about science...

PETER HARRISON | So there’s a kind of imperialistic assumption about the superiority of the intellectual apparatus that we’re operating . .

Their conversation is lively and illuminating as they discuss the importance of teamwork for the NASA launch. . .

AMIT MAJMUDAR | So anyone can approach the Gita without feeling their particular religious background or faith affiliation is under attack.

TOM McLEISH | Science is more about questions than answers, and that the critical imaginative move in science is to conceive of the creative

TOM McLEISH | My grandmother actually was an important influence on me. She had done a degree at London University in the twenties

LORRAINE DASTON | Einstein’s 1905 article on special relativity is an article that no respectable physics journal today would print

LORRAINE DASTON | If there is one moral to the history of science it is: whatever we believe now, we probably won’t believe

PHILIP BALL | I’m particularly keen to set science within a wider historical, cultural, and philosophical context