Science was blamed for all the horrors of World War I, just as it's blamed today for nuclear weapons and quite rightly. I mean World War I was a horrible war and it was mostly the fault of science, so that was in a way a very bad time for science, but on the other hand we were winning all these Nobel Prizes.

Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

I think the fact that Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World and talked about anthrax bombs probably helped because at least we... people had the understanding before the war began that's something we didn't want to get into.

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

Almost everything about the universe is astounding.

That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.