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.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

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.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

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

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

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.