I went to a 125th anniversary lecture day organised by Nature and I still remember it (25 years later) as an outstanding day. Speakers included Richard Dawkins, Stephen J Gould and Carl Sagan, who used his 'pale blue dot' lines in his talk. A truly stunning array of the great luminaries of the day. It's great to see Nature continuing.
One of the more amusing moments was when one of the speakers - describing mankind vs the environment (or something, I don't precisely recollect now) - finished by saying something like "...and so you see, Nature will always defeat Science", referring of course to Nature the journal's rival journal. Unfortunately someone in the audience didn't make that connection, and tried debating with the speaker about the primacy of science and technology. Oh well.
One of the more amusing moments was when one of the speakers - describing mankind vs the environment (or something, I don't precisely recollect now) - finished by saying something like "...and so you see, Nature will always defeat Science", referring of course to Nature the journal's rival journal. Unfortunately someone in the audience didn't make that connection, and tried debating with the speaker about the primacy of science and technology. Oh well.