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If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my des...

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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

To understand this new frontier, I will have to try to master one of the most difficult and counteri...

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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

Some might question whether it makes sense to talk about setting up the experiment and running it ag...

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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

If, years later, I do use the slit detector to observe which way the electron went, it will mean tha...

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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that thro...

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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an e...

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One of the most curious consequences of quantum physics is that a particle like an electron can seem...

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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned ...

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The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language...

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When people ask me what my religion is, I say it's the Arsenal.

For any scientist the real challenge is not to stay within the secure garden of the known but to ven...

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The Great Unknown: Seven Journeys to the Frontiers of Science

I think science is a foreign land for many people, so I think of my role as an ambassador's job.

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Marcus du Sautoy

Professor

Born: 1965-08-26

Died: N/A

Marcus du Sautoy (born 26 August 1965) is a British mathematician and TV Documentary presenter.More