This is great news for science and great news for Britain.

There's no question that between the TV shows and the greater visibility of forensic science in the news that a lot more people are curious about it and want to look into it.

It's a great pity that the Royal Society cannot itself afford to purchase them so that they could be restored to our collection of documents from which they were removed at some point during our early history.

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.

It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.

Do not be afraid of being free thinkers! If you think strongly enough you will be forced by science to the belief in God, which is the foundation of all religion. You will find science not antagonistic but helpful to religion.