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.

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.

We fake perfect so others don't have to experience any unpleasant realities, because their life is just as fake as ours.

My phone is on my bed, whispering in my ear like a bottle of scotch to a recovering alcoholic, while the rain continues cackling at me through my window.

Cherish every second you have. Hold the ones you love close to you. Sing, even when you don’t know the words to the song. Smile when the sun shines on your face. Dance in the rain.

Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth.

Hand in hand they whispered for a while. The girl nodded and the bear laughed. Together, they made their way down the corridor and to the foot of the stairs.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

If you can't energize others, you can't be a leader.

The Spanish ladies of the New World are madly addicted to chocolate, to such a point that, not content to drink it several times each day, they even have it served to them in church.

I just don't like the feeling of knowing something that somebody else doesn't.

I would rather be dead than empty