Royal Society a compliment to Lord Brouncker, a peer and the first President of the Royal Society. The society's motto, "Nullius in verba", is Latin for "Take nobody's word for it". It was adopted to signify the fellows' determination to establish facts via experiments and comes from Horace's "Epistles", where he compares himself to a gladiator who, having retired, is free from control. The society's core members are the fellows: scientists and engineers from the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth selected based on having made "a substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics, engineering science and medical science". Fellows
Stand on the Word Stand on the Word "Stand on the Word" is a funk / soul song written by Phyliss McKoy Joubert and recorded by the "Joubert Singers", and remixed by George Rodriguez and Tony Humphries on Next Plateau Records Inc " in 1985." The original version is subject to various interpretations, because it was first recorded in 1982 under The Celestial Choir name on the compilation of "The Choirs Of First Baptist Church Of Crown Heights Inc – "Somebody Prayed For This"". The 1985 version is the well-known disco version. Track list on 7" included The track list on the 12" and