By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question that their capacity to work out complex things is extremely good.

Having a child is arguably the most important thing you do in life.

I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.

Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to enhance a human, and the next generation is going to have to deal with that issue. Should we be trying to enhance humans rather than trying to educate them and so on?