I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

If you go through life and actually get to find out the thing you want to do, you're very lucky.

I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we think of it only as an academic discipline.

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 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!"

Statistically, 2012 was the safest year to travel on a plane, in the history of aviation. Not one major passenger plane crashed. It's pretty amazing. And when you see them being taken apart and you see the work that goes into keeping those things in the air, you think, "Wow!"