At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.
Paul NurseHow scientists go about their job: and it's a process, it's a question of asking questions, respecting observation, respecting experiment, having tentative explanations and then testing them.... There is a problem sometimes with how we teach science at schools. Because we sometimes teach it as if it has been chiseled in stone.
Paul NurseI have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
Paul NurseMy parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.
Paul Nurse