“ Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain. ”
Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different.
~ Gordon Brown
I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.
Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.
Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.