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!"

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.

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'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.

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.

When you feel life at crossroads, you need higher perspective view.

Do not fall in love.....it means you have to look at someone else.

Go far from home and yo will have a long way back.

I've never been a big cinephile, which may be why I could treat 'The Clock' like a puzzle and force the pieces to fit together in odd ways.

Probably because I'm bald. Don't the bald people always play doctors and principals? Yeah, isn't that funny? And lawyers. A lot of lawyers and judges.

Use your freedom to experiment with visual ideas.

Candy within reach and then I have to go on a diet.

Cake is not the issue here.

Everywhere I go in the world, people know me and recognise me and really show affection for me.

Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.