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 | Jeremy Myerson Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design, RCA; co-founder and director, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design; member, international selection panel, ICSID World Design Capital 2014 |
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Particle Physics is Sexy [Opens in new window]
"The 2006 Battle of Ideas did what it said on the tin: prejudices were punctured, common wisdom was questioned and original thinking honoured. The saying was coined in Texas, but I suggest that the Battle of Ideas adopts it as the conference motto: ‘sacred cows make the best burgers."
George Brock, Saturday Editor, The Times