Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.

I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.

As a Christian, I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

Why would you want someone who is conflicted and doesn't know if they love you or not?

Anomalocaridids seemed to lack front limbs, being an arthropod - being a joint-legged animal - and not having legs, it's kind of embarrassing.

Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable...

If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.

You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed.

Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either.