My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.

Authentic people are instantly more likable and trustworthy, which makes building rapport with them a pleasure.

Between giant spiders and meeting Edmund Ellis did I have a chance, Ms Rainn?

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.

At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.

In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.

If it's true that Christ was correct in saying that faith in himself is the only way to heaven, then sharing that truth is a demonstration of love, not hatred, toward unbelievers.