So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.

If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.

You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Religion is something people do together to face urgent problems and to resolve them by appealing to truths that seem self-evident to them.

I'm helping launch the new Milky Way Chocolate Ice Cream Bar. I play an astrophysicist on television, and the name of the bar is Milky Way, so put two and two together, and here I am.

I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.

The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.

A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.