I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic.

The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding.

Now, of course, cold fusion is the daddy of them all in a way, in terms of value, so I think that viewed in a social way, from the point of social considerations and economics, it will tell you that this thing will stay around.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

I don't suppose I'll ever retire completely.

It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.