I'd missed science and what it was all about because I was too busy trying to think of other things, when I was at school. I was too busy trying to be James Dean.

There is so much wonder and joy in science, about understanding how the world works and why the world is the way it is. It's not just for academics. It is a thing that's available to everyone.

I've never felt scared of flight, ever. It's really weird. I don't know. They stick a gin and tonic in your hands and I just think, "Life is good!"

People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.

At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out.

I've always been a bit of a dreamer. I've always loved to look and seek, and explore and find out.

I've found the thing in life that I adore, which is working in science television. It's just a big adventure, really.

If you go through life and actually get to find out the thing you want to do, you're very lucky.

In my lifetime, the population of the world has doubled.

We've only had aircrafts for a hundred years, and yet look at us. So, I've become absolutely fascinated by this strange, bizarre world of airports, air travel and transportation. It's interesting.

I love being in America. I love America. I absolutely adore working in America. I'm at my happiest when I'm in the States.

We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed.

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

I'm not really a cutter-off sort of person. I'll chat to anybody.

The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.

A man in armour is his armour's slave.

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.