While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a Philistine. But you could walk into the same room and say, 'I don't know what a proton is,' and people would just laugh and say, 'Why should you know?'

There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

Whether you're religious or not, there is a real need for other people's religious positions to be treated with the upmost respect.