For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always hear the soundtrack of Gershwin in my head every time I go over the Queensboro Bridge, or come in from JFK because of it!

What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

As we get older, things seem less important.

Climate change: Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.