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
Longest word in Turkish A slight modification ""Çekoslovakyalılaştıramadıklarımızdanmışsınız"" (43 letters) (you are reportedly one of those that we could not make Czechoslovakian) is however even longer and containing no question particle, is written contiguously. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, ""Afyonkarahisarlılaştırabildiklerimizdenmişsinizcesine"" (53 letters) was often said to be the longest word in Turkish. It means "As if you are one of the people that we made to be originating from Afyonkarahisar". After publication of longer words in popular media, it lost its popularity. The word ""Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine"" (70 letters) was proposed by Koksal Karakus as the longest word in Turkish. Its use is illustrated by the