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.

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!"

When I was acting, as a hobby, I would devour popular science books and keep up-to-date about what was going on in the science community. And then, suddenly my hobby became my job. I didn't one day say, "I'm not acting. I'm now going to be a science person."

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

People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.

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