Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?

...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in a room, all agreeing on the answers to the questions of how the Universe works. Whereas nothing could be further from the truth!!! The one truth that I see emerging from the History of Science is that experiment has always surprised theorists. Einstein included!

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer