I grew up in England at a time when England was winning Nobel Prizes right and left. I mean it was amazing how many Nobel Prizes England was winning in chemistry and physics and biology and all the sciences and at that time the teaching of science in the schools was really lousy.

I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well.

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.