The Masters and Wardens

The officers serve one year in each of the roles. The longest serving court assistant normally is elected as the new junior warden.

Every spring the Court selects one new assistant from the body of the livery. Names of liverymen who have contributed to the work of the company and who it is thought will bring useful skills to the Court are put forward and the Court to votes in a secret ballot.

Masters And Wardens

The Master Eur Ing David W Kent was installed on October 25th 2012.

Senior Warden for 2012 is Seton Bennett CBE and the Junior Warden is Professor Tony Wilson

Following the death of Senior Past Master Donald Coleman, SIr Ivor Cohen was installed as Senior Past Master at the Installation Court.

" If anybody says he can think about quantum problems without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. "
Niels Henrik David Bohr (1885-1962) Danish physicist.
" A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. "
Edward Teller
" I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe. "
Ken Jenkins
" If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate "
Henry J. Tillman
" Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. "
Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972
" The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." "
Isaac Asimov
" Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. "
Wernher Von Braun
" Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. "
Jean Rostand
" Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. "
Henri Poincaré, Science and Hypothesis, 1905
" The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions. "
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Le Cru et le cuit, 1964
" Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. "
Martin H. Fischer
" Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover. "
Bertrand Russell
" DNA was the first three-dimensional Xerox machine. "
Kenneth Boulding