There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get repeated publicity.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

America must always lead on the world stage.

Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.

O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life! O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true!

The final and conclusive evidence against evolution is the fact that the Bible denies it.

I guess you can say I was a late bloomer.

The transfer of Wall Street from private ownership to public ownership has been a big step backward.

I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.

People ask, 'What's the best role you've ever played?' The next one.

Turnin' nothin' into somethin' is God work, and you get nothin' without struggle and hard work

The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.