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Ann Dowling, Michael McKubre, Stephen Hawking…

Notable quotes from the good and the great reported elsewhere.

“Quite often you see in the media that when something’s been a success, it’s a success for science and then when something goes wrong it’s the engineers that are fixing it. Which seems sometimes very unfair because the engineering has been enabling it.”

Ann Dowling, head of the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, on the lack of recognition for engineering in the UK. The Life Scientific, BBC Radio 4, 28/8/12.

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