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Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?

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Robert Winston
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 15
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We are more dependent on science and engineering than at any other time in history. However, there is plenty of evidence that far too many people are scientifically illiterate, often having been put off science at school.
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I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.
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There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.
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I did not study science at school until I was 13, when I was totally turned on by a seemingly dreary old teacher who suddenly, unannounced, manufactured a huge explosion in the middle of a totally boring monologue. From then on, all of his class wanted to make explosions.
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While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain.
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I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from.
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Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?
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I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.
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I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.
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I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.
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Whether you're religious or not, there is a real need for other people's religious positions to be treated with the upmost respect.
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Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.
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Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of experiments banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain.
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I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or published. I get invitations to go to all sorts of strange countries where I would mostly be by myself and just meet other people there, instead of having travelling companions.
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However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.
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Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured so long, gathered up so many disparate needs and wants and feelings, and inspired so many different paths towards understanding it.
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My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.
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Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
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I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.
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