I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

As a Christian, I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.

I changed for the better when I quit expecting others to.

If you have no passion, you better do something different.

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

When nothing is done, nothing is won!

Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward.

Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

Love isn't rational, it's instinctive

The first day I went to law school, I realized I'd made a huge mistake. It was nothing like what I thought.

I am death, not taxes. I turn up only once.