It would be wonderful if ideas could be the new rock 'n roll

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

If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.

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

Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics. That's a dangerous slope, because the problem of course is you're not undermining just that, you're undermining the basis of rational decision-making in society.

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

You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.