The Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid of science RT @jonmbutterworth: if u want more @adamrdavison & me, check @CParticles collidingparticles.com

From the Guardian: Nicotine replacement has no long-term benefit when quitting smoking bit.ly/AyU5Ce

Ooh, @jonmbutterworth just appeared on telly...

Watching @jimalkhalili on BBC2. Go Jim!

RT @DrEvanHarris: If #Kelvin M says his inbox is full of emails saying earth is flat will he worry whether earth is reliably round #leveson

Kelvin MacKenzie: "So hard to get things correct" - not really, Kelvin. Just make an attempt to speak to someone who has a clue #leveson

agreed--great stuff--thanks RT @edge: @alokjha Alok, thanks for an important and interesting public service. JB

@edge Thanks for reading, John! It was a great response, wonderful to see the global interest in someone so inspiring #Hawking70

From the Guardian: Stephen Hawking marks 70th birthday with speech to leading cosmologists bit.ly/zVewyx

+1 RT @sc_k: Professor Hawking, seriously, thank you. #Hawking70

Thanks all who joined in with #hawking70 tweets today. That Prof really can turn a phrase, can't he? Inspiring, funny, brilliant man

Phew. Tweeting over. Now to turn that into a news story of some sort... #hawking70

SH speech over, crowd ontheir feet in applause #hawking70

SH: It matters that you don’t just give up. #hawking70

SH: Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. #hawking70

SH: Try to make sense of what you see and about what makes the universe exist. #hawking70

SH: So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. #hawking70

SH: I want to share my excitement and enthusiasm about this quest. #hawking70

SH: ... have been able to come this close to an undestanding of the laws gverning us and our universe is a great triumph #hawking70

The fact that we human who are ourselves mere collections of fundamental particles of nature... #hawking70