Things are always more complicated than most people believe.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

We do not know how much of the environmental change is due to human activities and how much [is due] to long-term natural processes over which we have no control.

Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.

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