I wasn't naturally a scientist, but I was always fascinated by how the world worked and why things were the way they were.

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'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.

If there was one thing she'd learned from her parents, it's that pleasure was sacred.

I can be a romantic. The way to every woman's heart is through her stomach. Food is at the core of everything.

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.

Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts.

You should never ask actors about politics.

For we must not build temples according to the same rules to all gods alike, since the performance of the sacred rites varies with the various gods.

One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.