9th February 2006, 10:21 PM
You want the first martyr for science? Try <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia">Hypatia</a>
For refusing to quit her work, she had her skin flayed from her using sea shells.
For refusing to quit her work, she had her skin flayed from her using sea shells.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)