Book Review: Conditions for the Emergence of Life on the Early Earth, Sydney Leach, Ian Smith, and Charles Cockell, (editors), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 2006, vol. 361, no. 1474, pp. 1673–1894, ISSN 0962-8436

摘要

Two of the things for which we can be most grateful to Great Britain are Sir Isaac Newton and the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, otherwise known simply as the Royal Society. Newton, perhaps the greatest scientist who ever lived, lies entombed in Westminster Abbey, but the Royal Society, of which Newton was President for 24 years, lives on as the oldest and most prestigious learned society still in existence ever since its founding in 1660. The Royal Society is the independent scientific academy of the United Kingdom, dedicated to promoting excellence in science. The motto of the Royal Society, found on its official seal, is Nullius in Verba which is Latin for On the words of no one, which proclaims the Society’s commitment to scientific truth established on the basis of experiment rather than on the basis of mere cited authority.