No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.

Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.

The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.