Most people...are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

Asking a question is the simplest way of focusing thinking...asking the right question may be the most important part of thinking.

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then 'process'.

When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.