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The arms were officially granted on December 10, 1956. | The arms were officially granted on December 10, 1956. | ||
The supporters represent Sir Isaac Newton and Michael Faraday. Newton is based on his statute in Trinity College Chapel, holding his telescope and dressed in Cambridge MA robes. Faraday is holding his induction coil and dressed in Oxford DCL robes. | |||
The crest is Minerva, represented as a bust in the collection of the British Museum. | |||
The motto means "knowledge cannot flourish without us”. | |||
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