My background was computer science and business school so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development testing marketing user education.

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education in roads and bridges in science and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that that's what President Obama believes.

We have not given science too big a place in our education but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

Now everybody I suppose is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.