However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.