No, not a feminist. I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.

All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

What humans do over the next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on the planet.