To me, mathematics is like playing the violin. Some people can do it - others can't. If you don't have it, then there's no point in pretending.

The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence.

Vegetation is really controlling what happens...whereas the emphasis in the climate models has always been on the atmosphere.

I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

I'm happy that I've raised six kids, and not one of them is a Ph.D.

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.