"What Dr White came in and did was sad for science, and sad for truth-seeking," Walgren said.
I'm always on-board for a sad, beautiful science fiction movie, but I don't think the new Blade Runner has a character quite as memorable as Batty (or Pris, or J.F. Sebastian), or a scene as perfect as Batty's final conversation with Deckard.
But it's a move that has brought criticism from farmers and experts alike, with professor of molecular genetics Huw Jones describing it as "a sad day for science and a sad day for Scotland".
"What a sad day for science," said Dr. Robert Lanza, medical director of Advanced Cell Technology of Worcester, Mass., a company that has cloned human embryos to provide cells for research but not to create babies.
Attenborough, delivering a speech on the future of public service broadcasting as part of a series of lectures organised by the corporation as a contribution to media regulator Ofcom's review of the sector, said it was a "very, very sad" that the science show Tomorrow's World no longer had a place in the schedule.
"His downfall is a sad day for science in Iran," says a scientist at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran who asked to remain anonymous because of the uncertain political climate.
The workshop titled "Trends in Ecological Assessment" was the second workshop organized by the Laboratory for Ecotoxicology (LECOTOX, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences (UNSFS), Novi Sad, Serbia) within the frame of the EC FP6-funded project INCO-CT-2006-043559-REP-LECOTOX UNSFS--Reinforcement of Research Potential of the Laboratory for Ecotoxicology.
"I think it's very sad this government devalues science in every walk of life.
By Erin Overbey May 26, 2010 This weekend brought the sad news that the science writer and literary critic Martin Gardner had passed away, at the age of ninety-five.
This weekend brought the sad news that the science writer and literary critic Martin Gardner had passed away, at the age of ninety-five.
