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

Yeah. Science doesn't end. That's the one thing I learned. People think of science as spitting out right answers, and that's it. It's always under review.

I wasn't naturally a scientist, but I was always fascinated by how the world worked and why things were the way they were.

I love being in America. I love America. I absolutely adore working in America. I'm at my happiest when I'm in the States.

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'd missed science and what it was all about because I was too busy trying to think of other things, when I was at school. I was too busy trying to be James Dean.