I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself!

I don't pretend to love someone who hurts me.I do something that prevent us hurting each other.

The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.

That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it comes to acting, writing, comedy, nobody ever stops you.

The abuse of children is the worst offence that anybody can commit.

Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.

Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

I honestly just love being in my studio working on music. That's all the inspiration I need. And I don't write with an end result in mind, I just write for the simple love of writing.