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

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.

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

I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.

You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.

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.

One of my theme songs is that if you can't do it in a test tube, don't do it.