Nullius in verba Nullius in verba The Royal Society website explains the motto thus: It is an expression of the determination of Fellows to withstand the domination of authority and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment. The phrase came from Horace's "Epistle" to his benefactor Maecenas, where he claims not to be devoted to any particular sect but is rather an eclectic by nature. These are the words, forming two hexameters in the original context: The minor planet known as 11059 Nulliusinverba in the asteroid belt is named after the expression. The phrase is also widely used
The N Word: One Man's Stand The N Word: One Man's Stand The N Word: One Man's Stand is an autobiography of the author, Aboriginal activist Stephen Hagan, and it is also an account of his fight to have the word "Nigger" removed from a sign at the Toowoomba sports oval, with an apparent pun with the word "stand". "The E. S. 'Nigger' Brown Stand" was so named in 1960 to honour the rugby league player Edwin Stanley Brown (1898–1972) as a distinguished local sportsman. The government at the time, the Howard Government, would reject decision by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial