Dorothee Stapelfeldt, Hamburg's senator for science, commented tuition fees "discourage young people who do not have a traditional academic family background from taking up study.
He has since established himself as an expert in post-mortem science, commenting on television and in court on celebrity cases as varied as Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Anna Nicole Smith's death and the O. J. Simpson murder trial.
"No sooner was the ink dry on the pages of Science," commented the Italian weekly magazine L'Espresso in its 3 August issue, than "as if by magic [health] minister Umberto Veronesi put everything back in place".
"I detested what he had done to Cornel West," Matory told me, and he was infuriated by the women-in-science comments.
Later that year, in response to perceived anti-science comments by Rick Perry and other Republican presidential candidates, he tweeted: "To be clear.
Tweets and blogs have become the norm and there is an ever greater demand for terse and rapid summaries of science and comments on it, further increasing the importance of press releases.
On 25 June, Tjian spoke with Science; his comments have been edited for brevity and clarity.
(Sometimes purpose has a more existential meaning, as in "there is a purpose to the universe", or "my life has meaning"—subjects well outside of what science can comment upon).
"Even the most optimistic person to whom you could have spoken back in 1990 couldn't have predicted the degree to which Hubble would rewrite our astrophysics and planetary science textbooks," commented Nasa Administrator Charlie Bolden.
Winston said Dawkins was doing a "grave disservice to science" with such comments, which he said were preventing serious debate and helping to polarise society.
