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!"

In my lifetime, the population of the world has doubled.

I was very much the laymen, trying to find stuff out because I'm curious about the world.

Those people who are scared of science or are a bit dismissive of science tend to not really understand what science really is, which is the most beautiful, most elegant and most creative way of looking at the world.

Everything that we know now will be changed in 10 years time.

At the heart of science is experimentation. Science doesn't care what you think. What's important is experimenting and actually working stuff out.

We've only had aircrafts for a hundred years, and yet look at us. So, I've become absolutely fascinated by this strange, bizarre world of airports, air travel and transportation. It's interesting.